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Land acquisition and expropriation

Amicable negotiation, tolerance obligations and expropriation under the Environment and Planning Act.

2 articles, from 5 August 2026 to 14 September 2026

  1. Analysis

    Ventilus versus Vierverlaten-Ens: two ways to route a high-voltage line through inhabited land

    Elia started work on Ventilus on 14 September while forty appeals are still pending. Two hundred kilometres north, TenneT is only now fixing a preferred route. A comparison on four criteria.

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  2. Policy

    The acquisition file goes to court: land acquisition under the Environment Act takes shape

    A single bypass around a town of six thousand people required three plots of land. It produced eighteen months of proceedings and two rulings from the highest administrative court. The first case law on expropriation under the Environment Act shows that the negotiation process itself is now subject to judicial review.

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