Land use; all categories, municipalities

Table explanation

Description topics

Built-up area

Area in use for residents, work, shopping, cultural facilities and public amenities.

Retail trade, hotel and catering

Area in use for concentrated retail trade and catering activities.

Including
- shopping centre, often with a pedestrian zone (even if above the shops there are residents);
- markets of goods;
- area with companies in the hotel and catering industry;
- associated parking areas.

Industrial area and offices

Area in use for industry, retail and business services.

Including
- industrial area;
- harbour area;
- auction area;
- exhibition area;
- cattle market (including covered areas);
- wholesale business area;
- area with banks, insurance companies etc.;
- associated storage areas and parking areas;
- garages (including parking areas);
- garage of bus companies;
- offices;
- associated parking areas.

Excluding included non-used areas or areas not yet ready for building or construction, these are assigned to building sites.

Recreation

Area in use for recreation.

Park and public garden

Green area in use for relaxation.

Including
- area within a built-up environment for the public with lawns, playing fields, sunbathing areas, paths, shrubs, flowerbeds and waterponds;
- greenbelts.

Parts of the parks that can be assigned to woodland (also larger than 1 hectare) will be assigned to park and public garden.

Woodland and nature

Area with forest or natural open area.

Woodland and nature total

Total area of the main group ‘Woodland and nature’.

Woodland

Area with trees for wood production and nature conservation.

Including
- area with trees of which the crowns are a closed entity;
- cutting field;
- fire lane;
- forest path;
- nursery of forests;
- storage of wood;
- scattered houses, if placed inside the woodland;
- poplar fields.

Excluding
- wooded areas of parks;
- forest nurseries that are outside the woodland;
- residential areas (with a pattern of streets) and areas of recreational houses inside the woodland.

Dry natural open area

Open area with a dry surface, mainly nature.

Including
- dry heather;
- grasslike natural area (not for agricultural use);
- dunes;
- sand drift;
- sandbar;
- beach.

Wet natural open area

Open area with a wet surface, mainly nature.

Including
- wet heather;
- reed and rush (including cultivations);
- salt marsh (not innundated at normal high tides);
- tidal soil, if barren;
- bluegrass land.

Excluding
- osier bed;
- wet woodland.

Inland water

Inland water in use as waterway, recreational water, mining area, sewage or sludge farm, water reservoir, including IJsselmeer.

Inland water total

Total area of the main group ‘Inland water’.

IJsselmeer / Markermeer

The water enclosed at the Afsluitdijk, the Ketelbrug, the Hollandsebrug at Muiderberg and the Oranjesluizen at Amsterdam.

Enclosed estuary

From the sea closed estuary. Haringvliet, Hollands Diep (until Moerdijkspoorbrug), Volkerak, Krammer, Grevelingenmeer, Veerse meer and Lauwersmeer.

Rijn and Maas

Waters from the river Rhine and the river Meuse, including their tidal riviers.

The area is limited by the Keteldiep (IJssel), the piers of Hoek van Holland (Nieuwe Waterweg) and the railway of the Moerdijkbruggen (Amer), and the transitions of the Dordtse Kil and the Spui of the Haringvliet.

Randmeer

The water enclosed by the Hollandsebrug at Muiderberg, the Ketelbrug between the Noordoostpolder and Oostelijk Flevoland, the Kattendiep and the Keteldiep.

Water reservoir

Area in use for storing water.

Including
- water storage for drinking water;
- water storage for the industry.

Water with recreational usage

Inland water for recreation, like water in parks and golf area’s, rowing tracks and recreational ponds.

Including
- water in parks;
- beachwater, swimming pond;
- recreation pond (surfing, swimming etc);
- water in golf area;
- water in yacht basins;
- rowing course, water ski.

The shores of these areas are at least three quarter a sport ground, an area of holiday recreation, an area for day trips, or park. An exception on this are the rowing courses and water ski.

Minimum size of yacht basins of 0,5 hectare of the water part.

Water where minerals are extracted

Inland water for the extraction of minerals like sand.

The water is assigned to this category as long as sand suckers are present.

Area for storing industrial water

Area for separing water and sediments, or for storage of (polluted) harboursludge.

Including
- storage area of the segregation of water and sediment;
- storage area of (polluted) harboursludge.

Other inland water

Inland water, more broad than six meter, that does not belong to another category of land use.

Including
- waterways (rivers, canals etc);
- lakes;
- ditches;
- harbours, if not yacht basins.