The successful subsidy scheme Stimuleringsregeling Landschap Noord-Brabant continues. The province again enters cooperation agreements with municipalities and water boards to enable individuals and farmers to create landscape elements such as hedges, bushes, trees, and ponds on their land with subsidies. This Subsidy Scheme Stimulation Landscape North Brabant 2.0 has a subsidy ceiling of €7,103,380.80.

The subsidy scheme Stimulation Landscape North Brabant (StiLa 2.0) builds on the current successful scheme that has been widely used by both individuals and farmers. The goal is to increase the number of landscape elements in Brabant and thereby improve biodiversity (The variety of life in a particular area), sustainably preserve and strengthen landscape quality, reduce the effects of climate change such as drought, and connect Brabanders with nature. The presence of nature around us has a proven positive effect on our health and sense of well-being.

Deputy Hagar Roijackers (Nature, Environment and Rural Area Approach): “We want to preserve our characteristic landscape in Brabant and relieve Brabanders in creating nature on their land. In the Stimuleringsregeling Landschap, interested parties receive help with the subsidy application, and a field coordinator from the local region provides advice at the kitchen table about the most suitable planting or water elements. This practical help makes the subsidy scheme accessible and very popular among our Brabant individuals and farmers.”

Help with subsidy applications

Brabanders can get support at the Groenloket Brabant. This desk is hosted by Brabants Landschap. This updated and simplified subsidy scheme has a total subsidy ceiling of €7,103,380.80 and is jointly financed by the Province of North Brabant, municipalities, water boards, and the national government.

The subsidy scheme also contributes with many small and medium-sized private and agricultural initiatives to the goal of achieving 10% green-blue infrastructure in Brabants rural area by 2050. Such infrastructure with ecological corridors and other linear landscape elements, such as hedges and bushes, is important to stop the decline in the number of plant and animal species and thus improve biodiversity.

Want to know more?

For more information visit www.groenloketbrabant.nl (links to another website) and Stimuleringsregeling landschap - Brabant