Service group: Urban planning
Innovation Festival
Vantaa celebrates its The New European Rising Innovative City award during the Innovation Festival week, October 20-30, 2022. During the week, we will arrange innovation-themed webinars, events, as well as publish the best proposals of the Urban Innovations of All Sizes competition.
Cultural environment
Vantaa City Museum hires two researchers of built heritage and one archaeologist. You can ask them questions about protection and management of the cultural environment.
Building control
Building control contributes to the creation and maintenance of a healthy, safe and comfortable built environment by providing guidance and advice to designers, builders, developers and property owners.
Master plan
The master plan is a general plan for the entire municipality's land use and the organisation of transport.
Vantaa light rail: results of property owners’ survey and light rail game published
Property owners’ and children and teens’ views on planning the light rail were charted as background for planning Vantaa light rail's disposition plan.
Vantaa light rail: Residents wish for a lively and characteristic light rail city
New “Residents’ Wishes for Light Rail City” report published to support planning of Vantaa light rail. According to the report, the residents wish for a lively and characteristic light rail city.
Streets and parks
The city plans and builds streets, parks, local recreation areas, protective green zones and outdoor sports areas.
Vantaa of Innovations
Vantaa is currently the fastest-growing city in Finland. In order to guarantee growth both from the social and ecological perspectives, Vantaa has had to be innovative and to flexibly use its resources together with the residents and all of Vantaa's actors. Vantaa has been chosen as the European
Land use planning
Planning is used to regulate where residential areas, places of employment, green areas and traffic routes are located in the city. Land use planning is divided into different layers: a more general master plan guides the local detailed plans.
Vantaa welcomes everybody to develop the global city - new Vantaa of Innovations strategy points the way to go
The new Vantaa of Innovations strategy dictates the city’s direction for the following four years. Vantaa City Council ratified the strategy in its meeting on January 31.