Commune · Flemish Region · NIS 44021
Ghent: counted in Article 8’s total
Gent / Gand
What the Nature Restoration Regulation counts in this commune, what changed since its 2024 base, and where to look in the atlas.
Article 8(1)
0.6 points under the green line: counted
- Green in urban centres and clusters
- 44.4%0.6 points below the 45% line
- Tree canopy there
- 18.9%8.9 points above the 10% line
- Tree canopy per resident, whole commune
- 106m²
Its urban centres and clusters are 44.4% green and 18.9% tree canopy. A commune is left out of the national count only above 45% and 10%; Ghent is not. One of the other readings of Article 3(20) turns the verdict: see the table.
| Reading | Green | Canopy | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official reading | 44.4% | 18.9% | Counted |
| Arable land counted as green | 49.0% | 18.9% | Exempt |
| Water not counted as green | 41.0% | 18.9% | Counted |
| Commune built from Statbel sectors | 44.4% | 18.8% | Counted |
The zero measurement
In hectares, on the latest open data (2021)
| Urban ecosystem | Area | Green | Canopy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban centres and clusters | 10311 ha | 4581 ha · 44.4% | 1945 ha · 18.9% |
| The whole commune | 15815 ha | 7494 ha · 47.4% | 2861 ha · 18.1% |
The form of the Dutch national zero measurement (PBL, 25 August 2026), with both boundaries the Commission leaves to a country. The Woody Vegetation Layer 2021 is allowed for draft plans only; the 2024 layer is shared with national authorities, not published.
Since the 2024 base
Tree canopy +16.8 ha beyond noise by summer 2026
| Summer 2025 | Lost | Gained | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban green | −31.7 ha | +29.0 ha | −2.7 ha |
| Tree canopy | −19.2 ha | +53.3 ha | +34.1 ha |
| Built-up | −15.4 ha | +21.3 ha | +5.9 ha |
| Summer 2026 | Lost | Gained | Net |
| Urban green | −9.4 ha | +23.5 ha | +14.2 ha |
| Tree canopy | −40.0 ha | +56.8 ha | +16.8 ha |
| Built-up | −41.0 ha | +18.7 ha | −22.4 ha |
Hectares as Dynamic World classifies the ground, summed over this commune’s sectors that moved beyond noise against their twelve matched places. Not the official layers, which do not exist yet for 2025 and 2026.
What the season bulletins name here
- Kiekebossen · 2025 · building site−0.122 NDVI
- Kiekebossen · 2026 · building site−0.069 NDVI
- Klosse · 2026 · building site−0.061 NDVI
- Lake · 2026 · canopy loss, two instruments agree−0.065 NDVI
Summers 2017–2019→2021–2024
5 sectors greener and 4 lost beyond noise, of 201 measured
Greenness against matched places
- Lake · greener+0.095
- Valkenhuis · greener+0.093
- Drie Leien · greener+0.076
- Mendonk · lost−0.066
- Kouter (Sint-Denijs-Westrem) · lost−0.060
- Drie Zwaantjes · lost−0.055
Built-up ground against matched places
Built-up ground: 5 sealed and 4 unsealed beyond noise.
- Kiekebossen · unsealed−0.071
- Brug Zuidwest · sealed+0.053
- Krijte · sealed+0.040
- Keizerspark · unsealed−0.038
- Drie Zwaantjes · sealed+0.037
- Bugten · sealed+0.036
The city’s tree register
68,240 trees the city manages
- 2020
- 967
- 2021
- 819
- 2022
- 1,113
- 2023
- 864
- 2024
- 2,258
- 2025
- 1,695
7,716 trees planted from 2020 to 2025, by the register’s own planting year.
Where the plantings went, 2020–2025
| Third of lived-in sectors | Plantings | Residents | Per 1,000 residents, this third vs the rest | Per 10 ha, this third vs the rest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Least canopy | 24% | 48% | 13.2 vs 39.0 | 9.6 vs 6.9 |
| Poorest | 27% | 44% | 16.1 vs 34.9 | 10.8 vs 6.7 |
| Hottest | 21% | 50% | 11.2 vs 41.8 | 7.8 vs 7.3 |
Per resident, fewer trees went to the third with the least canopy: 13.2 per 1,000 residents against 39.0 in the rest. Per hectare, more did: 9.6 per 10 ha against 6.9. Those sectors are dense, so both readings are true; neither says whether the trees were needed more there.
A snapshot of the register was taken on 27 September 2026. From the next one, the trees that leave it (felled, dead or re-surveyed; the register does not say which) will be counted by sector.
The city’s own register, Modellicentie Gratis Hergebruik (Stad Gent). Only trees the city manages; gardens and private land are not in it.
On the record
Registered, audited and the dossier
The dossier the open rule picks
- Ledeberg-Centrum44021G00-