Qaanaaq

Technical supply plants and other infrastructure

Technical supply plants

The area is to be used for technical purposes in the shape of technical supply plants, workshop, garage, fire station etc.

The area covers an area of some 2 ha

New buildings are to have a maximum height of 12 metres, with the exception of tank installations are to have a maximum height of 30 metres

No special provisions

The existing system of thoroughfares provides access to the other areas and functions in the area

No special provisions

The area is covered by the tank facility’s safety zone. The safety zone has a radius of 50 metres from the outer limit of the tank facility. This part of the area cannot be developed or in any other way be used contrary to the safety zone provisions. Regulated zones exist around the airport in the shape of obstacle limitation surfaces that consist of partly a horizontal surface and a conical surface, partly approach and take-off surfaces in continuation of the runway. The area is located under the airport’s obstacle limitation surface, and is covered by the conical surface, where the maximum ridge level of buildings and facilities is variable, having a positive slope away from the outer limit of the horizontal surface.

Heavily polluting companies may set up in the area. The establishment of a heavily polluting company presupposes an environmental permit, pursuant to the Government of Greenland’s Executive Order no. 11 of 20 August 2004 on environmental approval of heavily polluting companies etc. It is permitted to extend heavily polluting companies in the area