Green strips and residual strips

What is it?

Buy or rent residual strip from municipality?

Is there a municipal green strip adjacent to your residential plot that you would like to use? Are you already using a strip of municipal land, but would like to buy it? You may be able to do so very easily. The municipality offers residents the opportunity, if possible, to buy municipal land (Residual strips). Strips located behind the front facade can be purchased for €150 per m2. For strips in front of the facade cost up to €75 per m2.

What is a residual strip?

Remaining strips are strips of land that lie to the front, side or rear of a residential plot and are part of the public area. Sometimes there are pipes in the ground there, for example, which the municipality or the utility company needs to access once in a while or in case of breakdowns. But sometimes we are talking about real residual strips of land. These strips are no longer needed for public space. And they can be sold.

If you want to buy a piece of municipal land, we first check whether it is a residual strip and can therefore be sold. The test will include, for example, whether there are any expected developments that require the land and whether there are any cables or pipes.

Renting the residual strip

Is it not possible to buy a residual strip? Then it is sometimes possible to rent a residual strip (for a few years) from the municipality. This is of course subject to different Requirements than buying a residual strip.

Unlawful use of land

An inventory shows that strips of land belonging to the municipality have also been (consciously or unconsciously) added to private parcels. Simultaneously with the sale of residual strips of land, the municipality will deal with this unlawful land use in a neighborhood-oriented manner. Under Requirements , these lands may also possibly be purchased.