City and Planning Committee on 28 October 2026

City and Planning Committee to set direction Wednesday on SF’s green facades and roofs proposal

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On Wednesday, 28 October 2026, the City and Planning Committee will again take up SF’s council decision proposal on an action plan for green facades and roofs.

Klima og miljø
Byudvikling og lokalplan

Document date: 28. oktober 2026
Section: Committees
Status: Beta
Source: Aarhus Municipality meeting documents — City and Planning Committee on 28 October 2026 · item 5 (agenda + signed transcript + recommendation + proposal + note) ↗

Summary

On Wednesday, 28 October 2026, the City and Planning Committee will again take up SF’s council decision proposal on an action plan for green facades and roofs. Teknik og Miljø recommends that the action plan proposal not be adopted, but that the municipality instead prepares guidance material and updates Grøn Norm.

What this means for you

The case is about whether Aarhus should have a separate, target-based action plan for greening buildings, or whether the effort should build on tools already adopted, such as Grøn Norm, the municipal plan addendum Et grønnere Aarhus med mere blåt, and Politik for Bykvalitet og Arkitektur. It may affect how new lokalplaner (local development plans) and developers weigh green roofs, facades, and courtyard spaces in future.

Background

SF Aarhus proposes that the municipality prepare an ambitious action plan with measures and concrete, measurable, time-bound targets to increase green facades and roofs. The proposal was submitted by Thomas Medom, Anne Hammer, Mette Bjerre, and Liv Gro Jensen (spokesperson). The motivation is more nature in the urban space, biodiversity, climate adaptation for rainwater, and a better microclimate in the city centre, among other things through incentives, guidance, lokalplan (local development plan) requirements, and pilot projects.

The City Council sent the proposal for processing by the Magistraten (municipal executive) on 13 August 2025. The Municipal Executive recommended on 4 November 2025 that the city council adopt Teknik og Miljø’s recommendation of 22 October 2025, while Socialistisk Folkeparti reserved its position on the original proposal. On 12 November 2025, the city council referred the case to committee consideration. The City and Planning Committee postponed consideration on 30 September 2026 and, among other things, requested material from similar council decision proposals from Venstre and SF from 2018/2019.

In its recommendation, Teknik og Miljø assesses that the intentions can be met with information material on establishing and maintaining greened facades, roofs, and courtyard spaces, and that Grøn Norm should be updated in the upcoming city council term with a view to calculation bases and point values. Grøn Norm, adopted in 2023, already sets a minimum level of urban nature in lokalplan (local development plan)-subject construction through a points system in which green roofs and facades can count.

Figures and facts

The recommendation contains three points: the action plan is not adopted; example and advisory material is prepared; Grøn Norm is updated as follow-up to Kommuneplan 2025 (Appendix — Recommendation).
Grøn Norm was adopted in 2023 and applies among other things to the building types low-rise housing, multi-storey housing, housing in existing buildings, and commercial use (Appendix — Recommendation).
Teknik og Miljø has reviewed adopted residential and commercial lokalplaner (local development plans) with new construction from September 2024 to May 2026 for green roofs, sedum roofs, and facade greening (Appendix — Note MTM 21.09.2029 (annotated 29.09.2026)).
Examples in the review include among others lokalplan (local development plan) 1218 (Larsmindevej, Lisbjerg), 1225 (Karl Krøyers Vej, Skejby), 1226 (Tage-Hansens Gade / Amtssygehuset), 1224 (Plantorama ved Grenåvej), and 1238 (Atletikstadion og Sportens Hus) (Appendix — Note MTM 21.09.2029 (annotated 29.09.2026)).
In the city council debate on 12 November 2025, Metin Lindved Aydin (RV) mentioned a roof on Aarhus Ø of 850 square metres that had been painted, at 425,000 kr. plus VAT (Appendix — City council debate 12.11.2025).

Who said what

In the city council debate on 12 November 2025, Jesper Kjeldsen (S) and Bünyamin Simsek (KF) backed the recommendation. Liv Gro Jensen (SF) pointed out that she and Simsek had previously submitted similar proposals around 2018 or 2019, and that she sees little greening of roofs and facades in Aarhus. Solveig Munk (VL) would not adopt the recommendation and reserved her position on SF’s original proposal. Jakob Søgaard Clausen (DD) found SF’s proposal fine but was hesitant about the recommendation and called for concrete examples. Gert Bjerregaard (V) wanted more green, including in edge zones and close to buildings.

What happens next

The City and Planning Committee takes up the case on Wednesday, 28 October 2026. The committee can adopt or not adopt the recommendation’s three points and thereby set direction for whether the case returns to the city council via the Municipal Executive without a separate action plan, but with guidance material and an upcoming update of Grøn Norm.

Sources

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Transcript

Transcript of the council debate with speakers named, from the official signed record.

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