The Single European Market and Land Development

Altes, W.K. Korthals

doi:10.1080/14649350600841412

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“…The Structural Funds, Trans-European Networks and environment policies are particularly important, according to the ESDP, since they have the most direct effect on development activities in Europe. This assertion is confirmed by a number of studies published since the ESDP (e.g., Robert et al 2001;Buunk 2003;Ravesteyn, Evers 2004;Korthals Altes 2006). From a financial perspective, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Structural and Cohesion Funds are the most important policy measures of the EU.…”

Section: Eu Policies and Their Spatial Impact According To The Esdpsupporting

confidence: 58%

Learning from the Application of the ESDP: Influences on European Territorial Governance

Stead

Waterhout

2008

disP - The Planning Review

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European Territorial Cooperation, and the EU INTERREG Initiative in particular, is one of the five main means of application identified by the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). An entire chapter of the ESDP is in fact devoted to considering the application of its concepts and ideas. The five main means of application comprise: (1) application at the European Community level; (2) application via transnational cooperation between member states; (3) application via cross-border and interregional cooperation; (4) application of the ESDP in member states; and (5) application via pan-European and international cooperation. The influence and application of the ESDP clearly have an important transnational learning dimension. This paper examines the influences of the ESDP on territorial policy and governance and on the associated learning effects, looking specifically at the supra-national level. Three areas of influence are considered here: (1) cooperation within the European Commission, looking at sectoral policy-making; (2) cooperation between member states under the INTER-REG Initiative, focusing on cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation; and (3) pan-European spatial planning cooperation, focusing on activities of the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning (CEMAT).

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Section: Eu Policies and Their Spatial Impact According To The Esdpsupporting

confidence: 58%

Learning from the Application of the ESDP: Influences on European Territorial Governance

Stead

Waterhout

2008

disP - The Planning Review

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“…Particularly, the Local Government Act (kommunallagen), regulating a municipality's actions in general, and the Single European Market regulation have a mutual affect concerning pricing of municipal land and thereby indirectly land allocations. While the former demands a well-managed economy-hence not transfers of land under market value-the latter explicitly disallows transfer of public property below that level other than under certain circumstances (see, e.g., CEC 1997;Korthals Altes 2006;TasanKok et al 2013). Altogether, this requires municipalities to consider land values and prohibits them from economically favor one developer over another when selecting developer.…”

Section: Legal Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Municipal land allocations: integrating planning and selection of developers while transferring public land for housing in Sweden

Caesar

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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An essential component in all housing developments is suitable land. Besides being buildable, this implies land approved for housing in a marketable and consequently implementable location. Insufficient supply of suitable land to housing developers could affect the supply of housing. In Sweden, a lot of land appropriate for housing is owned-often since many years back-by municipalities and supplied to developers through the use of 'land allocations'. A land allocation connects a developer and a municipality in a interdependencybased collaboration intended to jointly create an implementable development right, followed by a land transfer. Using semi-structured interviews and questionnaires reaching a total of 26 municipalities and 91 developers, the Swedish land allocation system is investigated; results are presented with emphasis on requirements put on developers, its interaction with the planning process and on the different methods used to select a certain developer. Additionally, the system is reviewed from a developer perspective and put in an international context. While many countries make use of public land for housing, the article shows that the Swedish land allocation system deviates in several aspects and in spite of its long history, there are undoubtedly features considered less well functioning from the developer's point of view.

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“…However, some state aid is compatible with the common market, and there is scope for interpretation by the European Commission (Blauberger 2009b). Policies on urban redevelopment and the production of new affordable housing environments are significantly affected by negative integration since they involve state aid policies (Adair et al 2003;Korthals Altes 2006;Elsinga et al 2008;Priemus and Gruis 2011;Colomb and Santinha 2014;Taşan-Kok et al 2013). In this light, it is therefore remarkable that in the Apeldoorn case, as we will see below, the Commission ruled that state aid was permissible because it was deemed to be in line with the agenda of positive integration in the field of urban redevelopment and inner-city housing production.…”

Section: Europeanisation and The Single European Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing and positive European integration: permissible state aid for improving the urban environment

Altes

2014

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Housing is not one of the European Union (EU's) formal competences, but European integration does affect member states' housing policies to a significant extent. Without the establishment of EU-level competence, housing cannot become a field of positive integration and the Europeanisation of housing policies will continue to occur through negative integration, i.e. removing housing policy barriers to the establishment of the single European market. This paper analyses a state aid case relating to housing development in the city of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The case would suggest that the Commission concludes, on the one hand, that policies which use state funds to provide land for housing distort competition and yet, on the other hand, it views the improvement of the urban environment and quality of life in the neighbourhood as a well-defined EU objective that may make such aid permissible. This case is examined in the context of other state aid decisions on the Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas programme and on services of general economic interests, as well as a comparable case in which state aid was not allowed. It concludes that an EU competence has developed on the urban environment and quality of life and that, as such, positive integration on housing issues exists.

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The Single European Market and Land Development

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

Learning from the Application of the ESDP: Influences on European Territorial Governance

Learning from the Application of the ESDP: Influences on European Territorial Governance

Municipal land allocations: integrating planning and selection of developers while transferring public land for housing in Sweden

Housing and positive European integration: permissible state aid for improving the urban environment

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