Unique collaboration on a joint municipal plan in the Triangle Region
The Triangle Region is an open, green metropolis. Our cities are so close to one another that the Triangle Region is today a functional urban region, where we naturally move across municipal boundaries to work, shop, and use leisure and cultural offerings.
In fact, the labor market in the Triangle Region is so closely intertwined that more than 1 in 5 workers in the Triangle Region crosses a municipal boundary in the Triangle Region to get to work.
The only municipalities with a joint municipal plan
We have accepted the consequences of being so closely connected: Since 2004, the municipalities in the Triangle Region have worked together to create a joint municipal plan.
Seven municipalities – one direction
The Triangle Region is not merely a geographical collaboration, but an urban region where everyday life, the labor market, climate, mobility, and land development are interconnected across municipal borders. Therefore, the seven municipalities work with a joint municipal plan: to plan at 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 collaboration around a joint municipal plan, which both brings together common interests and leaves room for local priorities. It is precisely this combination of common frameworks and local ownership that makes the collaboration robust.
The collaboration is anchored in the Triangle Region Denmark and organized in a cross-municipal structure with a municipal planning group, planning directors, municipal chief executives, and a board. This organizational foundation makes it possible to work long-term and consistently with shared planning priorities.
When planning is elevated to a regional scale
The joint municipal plan not only strengthens coordination between the municipalities. It also raises the level of planning by linking local considerations with a regional perspective. This applies to issues such as urban development, commercial areas, infrastructure, landscape, climate considerations, renewable energy, and other land-use interests, where decisions in one municipality often affect several.
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 character and freedom to act.