News item | 16-03-2023 | 13:30
State Secretary Uslu, together with the Interprovincial Consultative Body and the Association of Dutch Municipalities, signed the extension of the Heritage Deal until 2025. The cabinet is allocating € 12.5 million for this.
The world around us is changing rapidly. Due to drought, flooding and heat, the environment in which we live looks different. Many cities are growing rapidly, requiring many new homes, while healthy food must be produced in other areas. Climate change, sustainability and a future-proof rural area are opportunities and problems that we must continue to face. Heritage can play an important role in these transitions and in making and keeping our living environment livable.
Heritage deal
The Heritage Deal Program started in 2019. In this program, various parties make agreements about the conservation and use of heritage in today’s major spatial challenges. The updated Heritage Deal focuses on the main themes of agriculture and nature, energy and the economy, housing and mobility, and water and soil. Think of the use of medieval watermill landscapes to prevent desiccation. To the nationally listed waterworks in Groningen that help with climate adaptation, or to the ancient cultural landscape in Fryslân that offers inspiration to increase biodiversity.
The Heritage Deal is a partnership between the Ministries of Education, Culture and Science, the Interior, Infrastructure and Water Management, and Agriculture, the Interprovincial Consultative Body, the Association of Dutch Municipalities, the Federation of Large Monument Municipalities, the Federation for the Conservation of Monuments, Natuurmonumenten, Staatsbosbeheer, LandschappenNL, the Central Government Real Estate Agency and the Spatial Quality Federation.