Provincial Road Land Use Restrictions in Drenthe, 2018

A 400-meter regulatory zone on either side of provincial roads in Drenthe, Netherlands, restricts land use to protect road efficiency. This map layer is part of the Provincial Environmental Ordinance adopted on 3 October 2018. The data is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Modeling spatial constraints for new developments based on the 400-meter buffer rule.
• Analyzing land use compatibility with provincial road networks.
• Planning transportation corridors by identifying protected zones from the ordinance.

Strengths

• Defines a specific 400-meter regulatory buffer for land use planning.
• Originates from an official provincial ordinance adopted on a known date (3 October 2018).
• Published by a national government ministry, suggesting authoritative source data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official provincial spatial planning documents.

Time Range

Ordinance adopted 3 October 2018.

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.