Unique cooperation on a common municipal plan in the Triangle Region
The Triangle Region is an open, green metropolis. Our cities are so close to each other that the Triangle Region today is a functional urban region, where we naturally move across municipal boundaries to work, shop, and experience leisure and culture.
In fact, the labor market in the Triangle Region is so closely intertwined that more than every 5th worker in the Triangle Region crosses a municipal boundary within the Triangle Region to get to work.
The only municipalities with a joint municipal plan
We are closely connected and needed to take action: The municipalities in the Triangle Region have worked together on a joint municipal plan since 2004.
Seven municipalities – one direction
The Triangle Region is not just a geographical cooperation, but an urban region where everyday life, the labor market, climate, mobility, and area planning are interconnected across municipal boundaries. Therefore, the seven municipalities work with a joint municipal plan: to plan on the scale where the real connections exist, and to create a common direction for the area's physical development.
A special planning practice
Since 2004, the Triangle Region has held a special position in Danish municipal planning. The seven municipalities have built a binding cooperation on a joint municipal plan that both gathers common interests and allows room for local priorities. It is precisely this combination of joint frameworks and local ownership that makes the cooperation strong.
The cooperation is anchored in Triangle Region Denmark and organized in an intermunicipal structure with a municipal planning group, planning managers, municipal directors, and a board. The organizational anchoring makes it possible to work long-term and consistently with common planning professional priorities.
When planning is elevated to a regional scale
The joint municipal plan not only strengthens coordination between municipalities. It also raises the level of planning by linking local considerations with a regional perspective. This applies to issues of urban development, business areas, infrastructure, landscape, climate considerations, renewable energy, and other land interests, where decisions in one municipality often affect several others.
With joint planning, the Triangle Region can to a greater extent act as one urban region – the open green metropolis – while the municipalities retain their local distinctiveness and freedom to act.