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Many municipalities face extensive and sometimes conflicting demands on land use. Climate efforts must accelerate, biodiversity must be strengthened, and space must be found for renewable energy facilities, afforestation, recreation, climate adaptation, housing, and business development.

This creates a growing need for a clear and politically robust land-use strategy that translates the municipality’s ambitions into a concrete basis for decisions, investments, and priorities—both internally and in dialogue with citizens, foundations, developers, and the state.

Jordnær Rådgivning helps municipalities develop land-use strategies through analyses, scenarios, and dialogue-based processes—drawing on deep professional insights from previous work at CONCITO and with municipal planning in Furesø Municipality.

We typically work with:

• Analysis of land-use needs and multifunctional opportunities
• Prioritization between climate, nature, energy, agriculture, business, and housing development
• Overview of national regulations and support schemes and their implications for the municipality’s room for action
• Scenarios and solution models that present alternative pathways for the municipality’s development
• Stakeholder and citizen dialogue with local actors, businesses, and civil society
• Identification of concrete project tracks and early implementable projects
• Overview of financing opportunities
• Collaboration with leading landscape architecture firms whenever it strengthens the project

The approach is always adapted to the individual municipality and its geographical, political, and strategic context.

The result is a comprehensive land-use strategy that serves as a management tool, helping politicians, directors, and municipal departments make well-considered decisions about where actions should take place—and why.

A strong land-use strategy gives the municipality:

• A shared professional foundation across departments
• A better basis for political prioritisation
• Higher quality in citizen and stakeholder dialogue
• Increased opportunities for grants and funding from philantropic foundations
• A more strategic collaboration with businesses and developers
• A concrete pipeline of projects that can be implemented in practice

After the process, the municipality has a clear overview of the paths forward—and a shared direction for how land can be used to create both local value and solutions to national challenges.

Want to know more?
Contact us for a non-binding conversation:
Peter Andreas Norn | pno@jord-naer.dk | +45 27 13 85 30

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