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The Scheldt estuary is unique in Europe. The Scheldt creates economic prosperity, a great natural landscape with mud flats and salt marshes, open space and fringes of woods, stream valleys with a diversity of fauna and flora. Now is the time to jointly reflect, beyond town and provincial borders, on ‘which way is the Scheldt valley to go?’

The Scheldt estuary is unique in Europe. The Scheldt creates economic prosperity, a great natural landscape with mud flats and salt marshes, open space and fringes of woods, stream valleys with a diversity of fauna and flora. Now is the time to jointly reflect, beyond town and provincial borders, on ‘which way is the Scheldt valley to go?’ The story started in 2004. At that moment, 25 municipalities, the provinces of East Flanders and Antwerp and the Flemish Region signed the Scheldt charter. In 2008, the Inter-Municipal collaboration Scheldt Regional Park (IGS-SLP) was set up. In the meantime, 15 municipalities have joined the IGS. This inter-administrative collaboration is straight away a firstling for Flanders. The ambition? Put the Scheldt region on the international map.

To make sure the projects meant to further shape the region are coherent and uniform, to ensure an efficient use of the scarcely available resources, to create added value and to optimize service quality, and so on, the NV Scheldt-Landscape Park was set up on 30th March 2010. It is so to say the autonomous development company that helps realize individual projects. The projects cover the fields of living, working, recreating, mobility, protection and environment. The purpose is to look, with all partners involved, for a renewed identity. In this process, we strive for common objectives and a joint vision.

Meanwhile, the course has been set out, a leitmotiv has been worded and the outline has been marked. A vision is an open scope providing orientations. This open vision allows the Scheldt-Landscape Park to generate quality land use, uniformity and coherence. It gets new dynamics going, helping to play the region’s trumps to the utmost, and create a future-oriented recognizable image providing the Scheldt National Park with an overwhelming strength.
Several parties and agencies have thought this over, they have outlined a policy and they have projects ready to go.

"The 'Schelde-Landschapspark' is continuously in motion."