Informal EUPAN TUNED Meeting 2015
A Luxembourgish Best Practice:
The ‘Urbanism Guide’
Luxembourg, 04th December 2015
Introduction :
 Urban planning and spatial development :
• a decision-making process aimed at realizing
economic, social, cultural and environmental
goals through the development of spatial visions,
sustainable strategies, plans and projects
• the application of a set of regulatory procedures,
policy principles, tools and institutional and
participatory mechanisms
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Background :
 2011 – 2013 ; Expert group commissioned to
analyze how regulatory burdens are affecting
urban planning and spatial development :
• Case study involving public experts and
stakeholders ;
• Process modelling of characteristic procedures ;
• Inventory of 1600 trigger events leading to
particular authorization procedures.
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Key issues :
 What makes planning
uncertain ?
• Unnecessary administrative burdens and complex
regulatory frameworks
• Isolated administrative procedures / absence of
integrated decision processes ;
• Limited access to public data ;
• Separate access spots for guide-lines.
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Key objectives :
 Improve public service delivery ;
 Ease administrative
burdens ;
 Respond to transparency and information
obligation ;
 Involve stakeholders ;
 Facilitate the access to information ;
 Reduce silos .
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Preparatory process :
 2013 – 2014; The facilitation unit for urban
planning and environment sets up a working
group to collect all preliminary works into an
integrated solution :
• Participation of experts from implicated ministerial
Departments at all levels of progress,
• Stakeholders‘ involvement (Ordre des architectes et
ingénieurs-conseils) and other consultants.
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Thinking process :
 Ease and facilitate the identification of
authorization procedures for every possible
spatial planning or construction demand by :
• developing an innovative guided questionnaire
based on legal and regulatory requirements,
• linking this questionnaire to the geospatial
database from the national geoportal to provide an
automatic validation of impacted criteria.
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Thinking process :
 Ease and facilitate the identification of
authorization procedures for every possible
spatial planning or construction demand by :
• including the experience of participating experts
and relying on their knowledge while testing,
• providing a free roadmap indicating which
particular authorization is required,
• leading the user to the competent authority.
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Product design :
 The 'Urbanism Guide‘ was presented to the
press by the Minister of Civil Service and
Administrative Reform on November 18th
2014 as :
• an efficient E-Government initiative reducing
administrative burdens and facilitating access to
national legislation for urban planning and spatial
development processes,
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Product design :
 The 'Urbanism Guide‘ was presented to the
press by the Minister of Civil Service and
Administrative Reform on November 18th
2014 as :
• a single point of contact for all preliminary
requirements and guide-lines
• a cross-cutting and integrated approach.
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Thank you for your attention!