Province
Province of Groningen
Regional government · Groningen
The provincial government of Groningen, providing official information, permits, subsidies and regional policy and project services.
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It offers a Teletolk connection for people who cannot use the telephone in the usual way, and it passes questions about bus and train travel on to the carriers and to the public transport consumer platform.
About
The Province of Groningen is one of the twelve Dutch provinces. It describes its own position as sitting between the national government and the municipalities: more practical than the state, with a wider scope than a single municipality. The provincial house stands at the foot of the Martinitoren in the centre of the city of Groningen. The province names its main tasks as speeding up house building, dealing with the consequences of gas extraction, the energy transition, adapting to a changing climate, and liveability, and it says its work covers spatial planning, nature management, economic development, culture and traffic. It keeps public dossiers on gas extraction and nitrogen, publishes its coalition agreement, its spatial strategy and its financial documents, and runs subsidy schemes with their own contact point. Permits, exemptions and notifications go through a separate licensing and enforcement desk, the VTH loket, which has its own telephone number and email address. Residents can report nuisance, damage to nature or a hole in the road, complain about the conduct of officials, object to a decision, or file a request for government information. The province is governed by an elected assembly and an executive, and it also has a youth advisory council.
What they offer
- Permits, exemptions and notifications through the VTH desk
- Provincial subsidy schemes with a dedicated contact point
- Reporting route for environmental nuisance, damage to nature and road defects
- Objections, complaints about official conduct, and requests for government information under the Woo
- Public dossiers on gas extraction and nitrogen
- Contact with the assembly through the Statengriffie and with political groups
- Guided tours of the provincial house
Good to know
- Registration, a citizen service number and a residence permit go to a municipality and to the IND, not to the province.
- It is a different organisation from the municipality of Groningen. An exemption for loading and unloading, for example, is arranged through the municipality's own website.
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