About Hans
Hans Turenhout is a Of Counsel and a lawyer since early 1993 and has been active in the field of public real estate law from the outset. He assists and advises public authorities and companies in the development and realisation of real estate. His activities include advising and litigating on environmental plans, environmental permits, cost recovery agreements, cooperation agreements and municipal land policy (loss compensation (planning damage), preferential rights and expropriation).
Hans is also a deputy judge at the District Court of Rotterdam (administrative law team).
Expertise
- Public property law (environmental law, preferential rights for municipalities, public compensation law)
- Public liability law
- Intersection of public and private law
- Expropriation law
Qualifications and experience
- 1993, Leiden University (Dutch Law)
- 2000, Postgraduate Grotius Programme (Property)
- 2014, University of Nijmegen, Expropriation law
- Member of the Association of Real Estate Lawyers;
- Member of the Association of Expropriation Lawyers;
- Member of the Construction Law Association
- Member of the Administrative Law Association (VAR)
- Member of the Environmental Law Association (VMR)
- Deputy judge at the District Court of Rotterdam (administrative law)
- Member of the Board of Gentlemen’s club AMICITIA Leiden
- Chairman Appeals Committee Golfclub Zeegersloot
Recent cases
- Environmental law: assisting governments, developers and private individuals with spatial projects, including on zoning plans, cost recovery, cooperation and land exploitation agreements, environmental permits, planning damage, enforcement cases, nature permits, nitrogen.
- Land policy instruments: Expropriations and municipal preferential rights;
- Advising governments and developers in the formation of government agreements, land exploitation agreements, cost recovery agreements, development agreements, public-private partnerships, redevelopment of estates;
- General administrative law: assisting governments in environmental law-related issues, such as compensation for loss, expropriation and unlawful government action.
- Assistance to municipalities, corporations and developers in the realisation of housing projects and redevelopment projects, such as transformation of obsolete horticultural areas or a former monastery complex.
