ABSTRACT
In the Netherlands, land readjustment is perceived as the urban counterpart of land consolidation. While land consolidation has been used since 1916 to improve the agrarian parcel structure, and to realise spatial planning tasks in the rural areas, land readjustment has only been used scarcely. Since the economic crisis in 2008, decreasing financial means for urban renewal, a political desire to take a more facilitative role in urban developments, and the increasing number of planning tasks in urban areas all added to the current demand for new legislation on land readjustment. In 2015, the Dutch minister declared a plan to implement a new act for land readjustment in 2018. Dutch land readjustment projects are located in different planning contexts, including business areas, housing, centre areas, recreation parks, and business districts. The success of land readjustment depends on a good process, and this process increasingly lacks public actors.
