2021 Volume 56 Issue 3 Pages 1313-1320
The conversion village system introduced by the revision of the Danish Planning Act in 2017 and 2019 , which is an extension of the shift in thinking of the spatial planning system across Europe from a regulatory approach to strategic planning since the 1990s. This system is so to say a newly established system that permits minimal development to maintain population and industry while preserving farmland. Analysis of conversion village operation cases in four districts clarified that, 1)the development permission can be available within the conversion villages, 2)in accordance with a designation of conversion villages, the frameworks of qualification for development permission are altered or recreated, and therefore 3)the development permission system is being operated in conjunction with the Municipal Plan and local plans formulated for development.
