TU Delft and the Vereniging Deltametropool together is creating a consortium of academic and social partners to meet the need for a new model of spatial planning that will keep the Netherlands at the forefront of practice in territorial governance. The project will break through the current impasse in the governance of the Dutch territory, and provide a roadmap for the transition of planning institutions towards the new model.

The New Planning is a collaborative project between Deltametropolis Association and TU Delft. The ‘new planning’ project will stimulate a step change in the practice in spatial planning to bolster resilience, foster more liveable cities ensure more sustainable and inclusive development.
General info:
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The project:
The project will build a new model of planning from in-depth analysis of Dutch spatial planning and learning from international comparation that requires extensive engagement with societal partners. A ‘new planning’ is urgently needed because the institutions that proved so successful in meeting the post-war challenges of growth, housing need, and environmental conservation are no longer fit for purpose. Dutch spatial planning practice is evolving incrementally in an ad hoc and theoretically uninformed way. The system is ill-prepared to tackle the urgent challenges of sustainability, resilience, the energy transition and information age. Major initiatives, notably the Environment Act, are not well connected to either the other formal planning tools or the informal institutions that determine how the system works.
The project, process and the stakeholders
The ‘new planning’ will be formulated from a theoretically informed evaluation of the current model that considers the need for policy integration, functional territorialism, democratic legitimacy, proportionality, engagement with citizens, and readiness for accelerating societal change. Novel methods of international comparative benchmarking, dialogue and simulation of prototype components will be used, alongside traditional methods of institutional analysis through case studies. Academic and social partners will cooperate at four levels of analysis –within the Netherlands, with the neighbourhood of north-west Europe, in comparative institutional analysis of European examples, and in scoping exemplars of innovation in spatial planning worldwide.
It is essential that the project addresses the urgent issues experienced in current Dutch planning practice. Our early collaboration has already helped to shape the pre-proposal and we expect the participants to provide more in-depth understanding of their perspectives and the benefits we can gain from the domestic analysis and international comparison. The outcome will be an agreed set of most urgent priorities shared by stakeholders; agreement about the main tasks and data needs from key partners, agreement to take part in analysis and simulation exercises; and a wider network of contacts who will engage in dialogue and dissemination.
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Project Partners:
| Paul Gerretsen | – Deltametropolis Association
| Vincent Nadin | – TU Delft
| Wil Zonneveld | – TU Delft
| Alankrita Sarkar | – Deltametropolis Association
Matchmaking Event:
As the first step towards the project, we are planning to organise an interactive meeting with the project partners and stakeholders. This event is an open invitation for all the other organisations who can contribute to the planning system of thre Netherlands.
Join us at the matchmaking event of The New Planning.
Date: 1st November 2018
Time: 13:30 – 18:00 hours
Venue: Berlage Hall, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology
You can sign up here! Participation is free of cost.
The purpose of the event is to ensure that the full range of planning stakeholders who are working in the planning system to be able to play a part in the design of the project to reflect their concerns. We also seek to widen the partnership with other primary partners (particularly in the market sector) and other interested parties who will be involved in dialogue and dissemination.
We expect an interactive workshop where all the participants will have a voice to contribute to a final proposal that will both meet the needs of societal partners and academic enquiry.
To know more about the event follow this link!
For more information you can mail to Alankrita Sarkar or call us at +31 (0)10 737 0340
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