The Producers Organization Pig Farming (POV) calls on farmers in Brabant to submit a request for planning damage to their own municipality. This is because of the extra rules that the province has imposed on livestock farmers. The POV reported this in a press release on Monday 20 November.
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Municipalities in the Netherlands are obliged to include provincial rules in the zoning plan. As long as that doesn't happen, the rules apply directly to the pig farmers. Both these direct rules and the zoning plans form the basis for planning damage.
Non-statutory requirements
The POV previously called for a damage claim to be submitted to the province of Noord-Brabant. The request to enter planning damage is the next step in the series of proceedings against the province. "The Spatial Planning Regulation (including the Brabant Carefulness Score) and the Nature Conservation Regulation force pig farmers to comply with requirements that exceed the statutory requirements and to take measures. This leads to additional costs and creates an uneven playing field. The province thus breaks through the market forces," says Ingrid Jansen. , chairman of the POV.
"Even if those measures are effective, it is not yet permitted to demand them. The province uses the reduction as a result of the measures as space for economic developments in other sectors. The net environmental benefit is therefore nil", let the POV know.
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