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This paper aims to investigate twenty cases of treatment and redevelopment of contaminated land from the view of care for the public in the Netherlands and Germany. These countries have national laws to treat land contamination, however the approaches are also linked with planning and decision making with the public. This research tries to incorporate both of the statutory and non-statutory process to treat land contamination and redevelopment. The results showed that overall approaches has been done by the statutory procedure, as well as to undertake non-statutory approaches. It became also clear that undertakings of public inquires and public consultation, and the presence of residents to be the promoting elements to further involvement of the public.