Scope: Environmental Contours for Provincially Important Industrial Sites

Environmental contour data for industrial sites of provincial importance, part of the NH2020 Environmental Regulation adopted on 16 November 2020 (Decision No: 1477251/1478383). The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and can be consulted via spatialplans.nl, with details in article 6.20. It is available in WFS, PNG, and WMS formats under a CC-PDM-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing regulatory compliance for industrial sites based on defined environmental contours.
• Visualizing land-use restrictions for provincially important areas via spatial maps.
• Integrating official planning boundaries into GIS systems for environmental impact studies.

Strengths

• Directly linked to a specific legal regulation (NH2020) and its adoption date.
• Provided by a national government ministry as the authoritative source.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (WFS, PNG, WMS).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely produced as part of the NH2020 Environmental Regulation planning process.

Time Range

Adopted on 16-11-2020.

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Likely covers provincially important industrial sites in the Netherlands.