Sale of municipal properties and building land

Want to buy a former school, community center or office building? The municipality sometimes has building lots or properties for sale. Also, if you want to buy building land, you can arrange this with the municipality. On a building plot you can build a house or a business, for example. The municipality regulates the sale of municipal properties and building lots.

Do you want to buy building land? You apply to the municipality.

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Approach

This is how you make an application for building land:

  • Go to the Environment Counter.
  • A map shows which land the municipality is selling. You can apply for building land right away.
  • Log in:
    • for yourself: with DigiD
    • For a company: with eRecognition
  • You submit your building plan to the municipality. A good building plan includes:
    • the address details of the contact person
    • what building land is involved, how big it is and where it is located
    • data about what you want to build there
    • when a business is involved: data on environmental impact, traffic and parking spaces

Depending on the situation, you will also need:

  • a housing permit
  • a business plan
  • an extract from the Chamber of Commerce

Are you buying a property? The municipality may ask about your plans for the property.

If you wish to establish a business on the property, please provide:

  • what kind of business it is
  • what the environmental impact is
  • Where traffic volumes are going to increase (transport movements)
  • what parking options you have

For the current supply of building plots on Park Hoogveld, please visit the website of Makelaardij Aelmans.
They sell the building plots on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Cost

Filing a request to want to buy building land is free.

Description

The municipality regulates the issuance of building land. On a piece of building land you can build a house or a business, for example.

Terms

Conditions for building land applications include:

  • You comply with the environmental plan. The environmental plan says what you can build and what it should look like. It used to be called the zoning plan.
  • You provide a building plan with your application. Your building plan complies with any image quality plan and other building regulations.

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