MPs Ove Trellevik, Haagen Poppe, Mudassar Kapur, and Tage Pettersen proposed changes to coastal zone management to create a clearer distinction between developed, privatized land and undeveloped land. The Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration recommends the Storting reject the proposal. However, members from the Progress Party, Conservative Party, and Centre Party put forward several alternative proposals with different compositions.
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The Storting calls on the government to ensure changes to relevant legislation so that coastal zone management creates a clearer distinction between developed, privatized land and undeveloped land, and to return to the Storting with necessary proposals if needed.
The Storting calls on the government to evaluate the consequences of the 2021 amendments to the Planning and Building Act § 19-2, with particular emphasis on the Supreme Court's practice and how it has affected local democracy, and to report back to the Storting as appropriate.
The Storting calls on the government to propose changes to the Planning and Building Act § 19-2 so that the assessment of national and regional interests is not an absolute bar but one factor in an overall political evaluation.
The Storting calls on the government to propose legislative changes so that municipalities' political assessments take precedence over the state administration's legal interpretations in exemption cases.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that all municipalities have the ability to establish a functional coastal zone line in a 100-metre strip along the coastline and watercourse in their administration.
Document 8:112 S (2025–2026) – Private member's bill from MPs Ove Trellevik, Haagen Poppe, Mudassar Kapur, and Tage Pettersen on a clearer coastal zone policy – is not adopted.