Open Space — Flanders — condition 2013

This map gives an indication for every 10 m cell within the Flemish Region whether or not it belongs to the open space, for reference year 2013. The concept of ‘open space’ is defined here as, on the one hand, the areas that are located outside the cores and which are not occupied by space occupation, and on the other hand the unbuilt parts of parks, golf courses and other recreation (as forms of land use that do belong to the space occupation). To concreteise this definition, the land use stock of Flanders, the space shed and the cores were used as base stocks. First, the total territory of Flanders was reduced by the cores and with the space siege outside the cores. Finally, the unbuilt parts of the parks and recreation grounds situated outside the cores were added back to the open space. In this way, this map includes the large uncultivated agricultural, nature, forest, park and recreational areas of Flanders, located outside the cores. These are intersected with infrastructures and fragmented by all kinds of buildings (private dwellings, agricultural dwellings, warehouses, commercial buildings,...) and the corresponding plots and gardens that do not belong to the open space. For more details on the method of allocation of land use to open space, please refer to the Space Report