Homeowners in the Netherlands with a tree to fell
Free check for Dutch homeowners: does your gemeente require a kapvergunning, is a kapmelding due outside the felling contour, and what to submit.
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How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Arborist report door.
Modeled on: Omgevingsloket vergunningcheck; Ondernemersplein guidance on felling
From public data
is the deadline for the gemeente to decide on a permit application, extendable once by up to 6 weeks
Source: Omgevingswet, article 16.64, wetten.overheid.nl
Turn field notes into a city-ready arborist report: tree table, risk notes and a tree protection plan for you to review and sign. Free to read.
Questions
Often, if the tree stands inside your gemeente's felling contour. The gemeente decides, in its omgevingsplan, felling bylaw or APV, based on things like trunk thickness, the number of trees or a monumental tree. The Omgevingsloket permit check shows the rules for your address.
Outside the felling contour, when the trees belong to a stand of 1,000 m² or more or a row of more than 20 trees. File it in the Omgevingsloket at least 1 month before you start, and replant on the same spot.
The gemeente must decide within 8 weeks of receiving the application. It can extend this once, by up to 6 weeks.
Related doors
Which site is the report for?
Where is the building work?
Where is the project?
Where is the forest you plan to fell?
Where is the project?
Where is the property for the DA?
Answer it and ePlan opens the Arborist report door with your answer filled in.