Analysis of large-scale establishments

Province of North Brabant

Algorithm to better understand large-scale establishments in North Brabant and monitor developments.

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• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Space and Infrastructure

Begin date

2024-04

Contact information

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Link to publication website

https://publicaties.brabant.nl/feiten-en-cijfers-brabantse-bedrijventerreinen-2025/h5-grootschalige-logistiek

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Objective:

In 2023, the province of North Brabant included rules in the Environment Ordinance to prevent the establishment of large-scale logistics in undesirable locations. Following the introduction of these rules, Provincial Council asked to monitor the effects of these rules. In addition, agreements on the establishment of other large-scale companies have been made with the central government within the Interprovincial Consultative Group on Space for Economy (IPO). To understand the large-scale establishments in the province of North Brabant and monitor their development, an analysis was carried out using basic registrations.

Impact:

The analysis may reveal developments large-scale logistics that do not fit within the rules for large-scale logistics in environment plans and the provincial Environment Ordinance. These cases are used in administrative consultations between the province and municipalities to learn how the rules are applied and avoid these situations in the future. In an extreme case, the municipality and province can decide not to allow the development to go ahead.

Considerations

The advantage of the analysis is in structured way to monitor the effectiveness of provincial rules for large-scale logistics. The disadvantage is that this analysis only looks at pre-existing situations and granted permits. Using the algorithm, a data-driven approach to monitoring is possible, providing a more complete picture.

Human intervention

All new situations of large-scale logistics from the analysis are checked manually. We check whether the rules apply to those situations.

Risk management

One risk is that the analysis only looks at pre-existing situations and granted permits. To capture situations of large-scale logistics earlier, another analysis was set up to identify requested permits based on official notices.

Legal basis

Section 5.56 of the environment ordinance prohibits the establishment of large-scale logistics (larger than 3 hectares). The province has set rules for the establishment of large-scale logistics from the environment ordinance. Provincial Council called for monitoring these rules through 2 motions (12a-2023 and 46-2023).

Links to legal bases

North Brabant Environment Ordinance: https://noord-brabant.viewer.ow.planoview.nl/omgevingsverordening

Elaboration on impact assessments

Operations

Data

Basic Land Registry: details of right of ownership, right of leasehold and right of emphyteusis and superficies, area of plot.

Basic Addresses and Buildings Register: Plot area, year of construction, building status.

Trade Register: SBI codes of main and secondary activities on large-scale plots, name and address of established company.

IBIS contours: Business park boundaries.

Environmental regulation: prohibition area large-scale logistics.

Technical design

The algorithm is a rule-based algorithm and is not self-learning. The algorithm makes a selection of business plots on business parks in North Brabant that can be considered large-scale establishment (larger than 2.5 ha). It links data on the companies located on the plot to determine the sector in which these companies operate. Properties from the BAG are linked to calculate the building percentage.

From the Basic Land Registry, the algorithm selects all plots located on IBIS business park that have the rights 'Ownership (right of)', 'Leasehold (right of)' and 'Leasehold and superficies (right of)'. Plots with the same geometry are merged into one plot. In this process, plots with leasehold rights take precedence over property rights. Of plots that are in leasehold, the name of right holder of leasehold is selected and not that of right holder of ownership. As a result, plots in leasehold constitute a separate plot from any adjacent plots with the same owner. For merging, the data were also sorted alphabetically by the name of the right holder so that this is the same right holder as far as possible. Plots that are adjacent and have the same right holder are then merged into plots.

Parallel to determining plots on the basis of ownership or leasehold, plots are determined on the basis of existing properties. For this purpose, properties were selected from the Basic Registration of Addresses and Buildings (BAG) with an area of more than 15,000 m2 located on IBIS business parks. Plots with which the property overlaps are merged to form a plot.

Both datasets are merged where, in the case of overlapping plots, the plot with the largest area is retained. All plots larger than 2.5 hectares are then selected for further analysis. Premises from the BAG located on these plots are selected and stored in a separate dataset. The same is done with establishments from the trade register.

External provider

Internally developed