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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre                           2015

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre: the reliable official information
      system concerning public-law restrictions on
      landownership

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre

                            An innovative and highly useful instrument
                            for everyone

                            The PLR-cadastre is an instrument that permits easy access to clearly
                            comprehensible and legally binding information about plots of land in
                            Switzerland.

                                                 People who own land in Switzerland cannot
                                                 simply use it as they wish. They have to comply
                                                 with certain conditions stipulated in laws and
                                                 ordinances and enforced by the relevant
Switzerland is one of the first                  authorities. There is a broad range of laws,
countries in the world to develop                ordinances and official regulations, which
a cadastre in which public-law
                                                 together constitute public-law restrictions on
restrictions on landownership will
be systematically documented                     landownership rights.
and centrally published. The first
cantons went online with their                   Examples of such restrictions include:
PLR-cadastres in 2014, and the
                                                 • Building zones, which specify which plots of
complete cadastre will be available
throughout the country by 2020.                     land may be utilised
                                                 • Layout plans, which specify how a building has
                                                    to be designed
                                                 • Building line plans, which specify the minimum
                                                    distance that has to be maintained between
                                                    buildings and the border of the plot
                                                 • Protection orders (e.g. protection of historical
                                                    buildings, sites, etc.)
                                                 • Noise sensitivity levels
                                                 • Groundwater protection zones

                                                 Anyone interested in finding out which public-law
                                                 restrictions apply to a given plot of land can do
                                                 so quickly and conveniently with the aid of the
                                                 PLR-cadastre.

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre

                           Easy access to information relating to public-
                           law restrictions on landownership

                           Anyone wishing to obtain up-to-date information about public-law
                           restrictions on landownership can do so conveniently online via the
                           freely accessible PLR-cadastre.

                         PLR-cadastre                              Cantonal             Dynamic                      Static
                                                                 PLR geo-portal   PLR-cadastre extracts       PLR-cadastre extracts

                                                                                      The PLR-cadastre comprises a broad variety
                                                                                      of data (plans, legal provisions and regulations,
                                                                                      details about plots of land), and places all the
                                                                                      information at the disposal of everyone in a
                                                                                      structured and comprehensible manner. The data
                                                                                      can be called up at any time via the cantonal
                                                                                      geo-portals, and utilised either in digital or in
                                                                                      analogue form.

                                                                                      This means that, thanks to the PLR-cadastre,
                                                                                      the previously unavoidable and complex task of
                                                                                      obtaining information about all the public-law
                                                                                      restrictions relating to a given plot of land from
PLR-cadastre geo-portal of the canton of Jura.                                        each of the relevant authorities, then comparing
www.cadastre.ch/ch contains links to all cantonal geo-portals.                        them and combining them, will be a thing of
                                                                                      the past.

                                                                                      www.cadastre.ch
                                                                                      The Swiss cadastral portal provides access to data
                                                                                      relating to the cadastral survey, the land register
                                                                                      and the PLR-cadastre.

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre

Dynamic or static extract?

All details recorded in the PLR-cadastre can be called up and utilised in
dynamic and/or static form as required.

Dynamic PLR-cadastre extracts – web-based                Static PLR-cadastre extracts – basis for
visualisation                                            decision-making
             Via the cantonal geo-portals, individual                Static extracts are available as PDF
             public-law restrictions on landowner-                   files and comprise several pages. They
             ship can be displayed or hidden in                      contain detailed information about
any desired combination, and viewed simultane-           the individual public-law restrictions that apply to
ously, i.e. overlapping one another. Certain             a given plot of land. They can be used as the
other geodata are also available: for example, it is     basis for making decisions, for example regarding
possible to use a national map or an aerial photo        the granting of a building permit or a mortgage.
as a background image. With a dynamic extract            Static extracts are official documents that may be
it is possible to display not only individual plots of   notarised if required.
land, but also entire regions. This makes dynamic
extracts valuable aids for dealing with questions
and discussing spatial issues.

                                                                               Dynamic extract

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre

                                                             Components of a static extract from a
                                                             PLR-cadastre

                                                             A static extract is issued for a specific plot of land. It contains a
                                                             separate page, including a plan and explanatory key, for each applicable
                                                             public-law restriction.

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                                     Legal provisions                                                                                                                                                                                                         Legal bases
                                     The legal provisions indicate the rulings on which                                                                                                                                                                       As legal bases, the general regulations on
                                     the restriction is based and which describe the                                                                                                                                                                          which the rulings are based are cited, for example
                                     nature of the restriction and its effects. This may,                                                                                                                                                                     a cantonal water protection ordinance.
                                     for example, take the form of the acceptance
                                     of a municipality’s land use plan.

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre

           From contaminated sites to forest perimeters:
           the various public-law restrictions on
           land­ownership at a glance

           Anyone wishing to find out which public-law restrictions apply to a
           given plot of land can do so with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Contaminated sites                                In Switzerland there are more than 150 different
Cadastre of contamined sites
                                                  public-law restrictions on landownership. In the
Cadastre of contamined military sites
Cadastre of contamined sites at civil airfields   initial phase of its development, at the federal
Cadastre of public transport contamined sites     level the 17 most important restrictions from eight
                                                  sectors will be incorporated into the PLR-cadastre.
Railways
Project planning zones for railways
Building lines for railways                       Cantons and municipalities will be constantly
                                                  adding their landownership restrictions, which
                                                  always have to meet the following requirements:
Airports                                          they must be clearly designated (on site or on a
Project planning zones for airports
                                                  map), concern a certain number of plots of land,
Building lines for airports
Security zone plan
                                                  and be legally binding.

Groundwater protection
Groundwater protection zones
Groundwater protection area

Noise
Noise sensitivity levels (in land-use zones)

Motorways
Project planning zones for motorways
Building lines for motorways

Spatial planning
Land-use planning (cantonal/municipal)

Forests
Forest perimeters (in building zones)
Forest distance lines

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The Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership (PLR-cadastre)
PLR-cadastre

                           Who can benefit from the PLR-cadastre?

                           The PLR-cadastre is a valuable instrument for anyone who is interested
                           in the public-law restrictions that apply to a plot of land.

                                                                 It is extremely useful for existing and future
                                                                 landowners, owners of real estate, planners and
                                                                 architects, private sector engineering companies
                                                                 and players on the property and mortgage
                                                                 markets, as well as for authorities and public
                                                                 administrations.

                                                                 In the course of the introduction of the PLR-
                                                                 cadastre, the processing and implementation of
                                                                 data will represent an enormous amount of work
                                                                 for the involved authorities at the federal,
                                                                 cantonal and municipal levels. However, once this
                                                                 work has been completed, the authorities will
                                                                 have an outstanding instrument at their disposal
                                                                 for efficiently and effectively fulfilling their duty
                                                                 to provide information – in line with the federal
                                                                 “e-government” strategy, which calls for the
                                                                 provision of “efficient, transparent and economi-
                                                                 cal electronic government services for the
                                                                 population, the economy and the administration”.

                                                                 But businesses, too, will be able to benefit from
                                                                 savings in terms of time and costs, because they
                                                                 will have fast and convenient access to the
                                                                 relevant data relating to landownership. The
                                                                 PLR-cadastre will increase market transparency as
                                                                 well as the degree of legal certainty in the real
                                                                 estate sector.

Easy access for everyone: Plans and information about existing
public-law restrictions on landownership can be called up for
any plot of land via the cantonal geo-portals.

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PLR-cadastre

                            Who is responsible for managing the
                            PLR-cadastre?

                            The PLR-cadastre is jointly managed by the federal government
                            and the cantons, who also share the associated costs.

                               Combined effort

Federal level:                   swisstopo            Coordination
Strategic management         (Federal Directorate       federal       responsible federal office
and supervisory control
                           of Cadastral Surveying)    government

                            Programme agreements                                 Spatial     Civil
                                                                     Environment planning    engineering   …

Cantonal level:                  Cantonal             Coordination
                                                                                                                 The development of the PLR-
Operational                                                           responsible cantonal office
management
                          PLR-cadastre authorities      canton                                                   cadastre is an extremely complex
                                                                                                                 task that involves numerous
                                                                                                                 authorities at the federal and
PLR-cadastre                                         PLR-data
                                                                                                                 cantonal levels.

                            The federal government defines the strategic                    In the initial phase, the cantons of Bern, Geneva,
                            focus of the PLR-cadastre. It specifies the                     Jura, Neuchâtel, Nidwalden Obwalden, Thurgau
                            minimum requirements with respect to organisa-                  and Zurich introduced their PLR-cadastres. The
                            tion, administration, harmonisation, data quality,              remaining cantons will then introduce their own
                            methods and processes, and has appointed the                    cadastres in the period between 2016 and 2020,
                            Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) as               based on the experiences and findings of the pilot
                            the federal supervisory authority. This duty is                 cantons.
                            performed within swisstopo by the Federal
                            Directorate of Cadastral Surveying.                             The current status of introduction can be viewed
                                                                                            by visiting “cadastre.ch/ch”, which also contains
                            The cantons are responsible for organising the                  links to all cantonal geo-portals.
                            management of the PLR-cadastre and for
                            appointing the administrative bodies. The office
                            in each canton that is responsible for managing
                            the PLR-cadastre receives the data to be
                            incorporated into it from the relevant authorities.
                            It manages these data and places them at the
                            disposal of the public via the cantonal geo-portal.

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                                                   Illustrations: Amt für Geoinformation, Kanton Bern; Amt für
                                                   Geoinformation, Kanton Thurgau; Baudirektion, Amt für
                                                   Raumentwicklung, Kanton Zürich; Direction de la mensuration
                                                   officielle, République et Canton de Genève; GIS Daten AG;
                                                   Service de la géomatique et du registre foncier, République et
                                                   Canton de Neuchâtel; Service du développement territorial,
                                                   Section du cadastre et de la géoinformation, République et
                                                   Canton du Jura
    Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying
    Seftigenstrasse 264, CH-3084 Wabern
    Phone +41 58 464 73 03
    infovd@swisstopo.ch
    www.cadastre.ch

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