Features
What you do with RRL
Each part of RRL, from the land as it is today to the work in later years, with the stage of the road where you use it.
Every value says
- Declared
- Measured
- Estimated
- Derived
- Not known yet
Stages 1 and 3
Land
The place itself, as it is today.
- Your land on the map
- Draw the boundary, the zones and what stands on them. Once the height data is in, you also see the land in 3D, with a height profile along any line.
- Available maps as a starting point
- Consult available planning and environmental layers beside your plan. Coverage and dates vary; the competent authority confirms which official documents apply.
- Area checked
- The stated area beside the one on the map, with the source of every figure.
- The starting situation
- Vegetation, soil and flammable material per zone, and photo points you come back to later for the same photo.
Stages 2 and 4
Living and permit
Who will live there, and in what house.
- The household
- Who lives there, now and later. Water and energy are worked out from it.
- A house you design yourself
- Size, insulation and materials, with a cutting plan for what you build yourself.
- Explore the procedure
- Compare routes and questions to discuss with your architect or the competent authority.
Stage 4
Water
Where your water comes from, where your wastewater goes and what you need through the year.
- Connect or supply yourself
- Choose per service, for drinking water and wastewater separately.
- Wastewater
- Sewer or treatment on site: you choose from the systems Portuguese sources name, each with its source. Your choice goes into your dossier; an expert handles the design and the permit.
- The water year
- Rain, well, storage and use, month by month. What is not known yet says so.
Stage 4
Energy
Electricity for the house.
- Connect or supply yourself
- The grid, your own solar panels, or both.
- The solar year
- The yield per month for your place, from the European Commission's PVGIS, beside what the household uses.
Stage 4 · in your proposal
Plan and commitments
Describe what you want to improve for soil, water and nature, how you will do it and how you will follow the results.
- Your plan for the land
- Per zone what you will do, when and why: planting, soil, water, fire safety.
- Restoration targets
- What you want to achieve, and how you will measure later whether it works.
- Commitments
- What you promise to do for soil, water and nature, and who stands for it. They go into your proposal.
Stage 5
Money
What it costs and how you pay for it.
- The costs
- Per part, with where each amount comes from.
- Planned and received funding
- Keep your own contribution, loans, gifts and grants separate, with their status, conditions and evidence.
- Cash and planning
- What comes in and goes out when, so you see whether a gap opens anywhere.
- Prepare accountability
- Connect expenses and supporting documents to budgets and funding agreements. An assessment does not establish entitlement to funding.
Stages 6 and 7
Dossier and proposal
What your plan rests on, in one place.
- Rules and open questions
- See recorded checks for land, housing and utilities, with the source and version of the rules.
- What is still missing
- For each open question, who can answer it: you, an expert or the câmara.
- Evidence with the value
- Documents and photos linked to the figure they support.
- The proposal
- Bring plans, commitments, sources and open questions together in a saved version for discussion or handover. You choose the recipient and hand it over yourself.
Every stage
RRL EDU: learning and practice
Practical knowledge to compare approaches before you decide what fits your place.
- Learn from practical experience
- The first course covers productive and edible forests in six units, with explanations, examples, questions and sources.
- Observe, try and return
- Start with your place and available care. Plan a small trial and return to observe what changes.
- Knowledge with a source
- See whose work an explanation builds on. Appointed authors and editors can develop and review learning material.
- A public draft
- The first course is a draft. Subject and learning-design review remain open; the material promises no ecological result.
Every stage
Working together
Invite the people your project needs.
- Invite people
- Your architect, your adviser or someone from the câmara looks along, with a role that suits them.
- Ask a person
- Where your project offers it, you ask a person a question from Help, about your project or about RRL itself. Your conversations stay together.
Stages 8 and 9
The years
Follow the work and changes over time.
- Record the answer
- The decision with the letter, and which open points the letter answers.
- Do what you committed to
- Your commitments as tasks, and measurements and photo points over the years beside the restoration targets in your proposal.
Everywhere
On every page of your project.
- The road
- Nine stages. You see what is up to you now and what lies with others.
- Simple or with sources
- The same page, calm or with the sources and rules in it.
- Six languages
- Dutch, English, Portuguese, French, German and Spanish.
- On your phone
- Out on the land too, with a round you prepare for where the signal drops.
What RRL does not do
It approves nothing and sends nothing to the câmara. It does not replace official maps, and it does not fill in what nobody knows: not known stays not known.