Starting a business in Venlo
Venlo is an entrepreneurial city. A city for entrepreneurs. Tackling and hard work are part of the Venlo style of business, as are inventiveness and creativity.
When you want to establish or start a business in Venlo, you obviously want to make a good start. The municipality of Venlo is happy to help you with this.
Entrepreneur desk
For local information, for questions specifically for or about the Municipality of Venlo, please contact the Entrepreneurs' Desk of the Municipality of Venlo:
E-mail: ondernemersloket@venlo.nl
Phone: 14 077
Other (national) organisations and institutions that can help you as a (start-up) entrepreneur:
- Established or starting entrepreneurs can visit the national KVK site for information en.
- Tax Office or https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/startende-ondernemer/startende-ondernemer
- SME Service Desk
- UWV(In case someone wants to start a business as a UWV client)
- The Rabobank North Limburgis active in helping start-ups.
Licences and regulations
Venlo municipality tries to give business as much space as possible. But as an entrepreneur, you naturally have to take all kinds of laws and regulations into account. Certain activities require a permit.
More information on rules and permits can be found on the site of the municipality of Venlo.
(For questions or in-depth information, you can always contact the Entrepreneurs' Desk of the Venlo Municipality:
E-mail: ondernemersloket@venlo.nl
Phone: 14 077)
Money matters and taxes
Entrepreneurship and money worries
Are you an entrepreneur with money worries? You are not alone. The municipality can help you with financial support. See https://www.venlo.nl/ondernemen-en-geldzorgen.
Transformation Fund
Do you own or use a property in the centre of Venlo, Blerick or Tegelen? If so, you may be entitled to a one-off grant from the Transformation Fund. See https://www.venlo.nl/subsidie-transformatiefonds-venlo
Taxes entrepreneurs
Every Venlo entrepreneur receives one or more municipal tax assessment notices every year. Which taxes you pay as an entrepreneur depends on the type of business you have. See https://www.venlo.nl/belastingen.
Business Investment Zone (BIZ)
The companies in Venlo's business parks are united in a BIZ. With almost 1,300 member companies, this makes us one of the largest BIZ zones in the Netherlands. This offers a unique cooperation between the Venlo entrepreneurs, the municipality and other important stakeholders. The BIZ actively invests in an attractive and safe environment, shared goals and smart solutions. The result? More opportunities for growth and a strong economic impulse for Venlo.
The BIZ offers companies in Venlo numerous specific benefits that contribute to their success and growth:
- Joint investments: We join forces to enable collective initiatives such as improvements in infrastructure, security and branding of our city and region.
- Security and maintenance: Investments in e.g. camera surveillance, lighting and maintenance make the area safer, more attractive and pleasant to work in.
- Higher attractiveness: The joint approach increases the attractiveness of the business parks, which can attract more activity and where new opportunities arise.
- Fair cost sharing: Everyone within the BIZ contributes, ensuring that the financial burden is shared fairly.
- Bigger budget: The joint effort means more budget is available for projects that are difficult to achieve individually.
- Co-funding: Based on shared objectives, key projects are jointly funded with Venlo municipality, providing additional resources to achieve common goals.
By joining forces, our entrepreneurs benefit from a stronger business environment and sustainable economic growth.
Waste & environment
Waste
For many small (office) businesses, the rules laid down in the waste guide are sufficient. For business owners in the city centre or on the industrial estates, separate rules apply. For example, paper and cardboard are collected weekly in the city centre.
View the rules and regulations surrounding waste in the municipality of Venlo here. https://www.venlo.nl/afval
View the Venlo municipality's waste guide here. https://www.venlo.nl/afvalsoorten
The waste calendar shows when, where, what waste is collected.https://www.venlo.nl/afvalkalender
Companies are responsible for disposing of their own industrial waste. They must contact a waste collector for this themselves.
Environment
In some cases, companies must submit an environmental notification via the website of Activities Decree Internet Module https://www.aimonline.nl/
More information on environment can be found on the national sites
https://ondernemersplein.kvk.nl/omgevingsvergunning-of-melding-milieubeheer/
https://ondernemersplein.kvk.nl/wetten-en-regels/milieu/
Use of public space
Entrepreneurs wishing to carry out work and place, for example, a container, mobile toilet (Dixi), shelters or scaffolding in the public space need an exemption throughout the municipality. This also applies if the road, cycle path and/or pavement are used entirely or partially and if fences are placed around a construction site. Applying for an exemption https://www.venlo.nl/plaatsen-van-objecten
Parking
If a business is located in a blue zone, in an area subject to paid parking or in the closed part of the city centre, a parking permit can be applied for the business owner and his employees. A parking permit is subject to fees. View the options for a parking permit https://www.venlo.nl/vergunning-voor-bedrijven-en-medewerkers
If a business is located within the area paid parking, closed area or in a blue zone, visitors can use the visitor parking scheme. Based on the license plate, a visitor is then given rights to park. Check out the options for visitors; https://www.venlo.nl/regeling-voor-bezoekers
Of course, visitors and customers can always use the various car parks or car parks in the city. To enter the closed part of the city centre, an annual waiver can be applied for under certain circumstances. A waiver is subject to charges.
Roadworks and accessibility
Retrieved from this page contains a link to the national road traffic data database, which provides up-to-date information at street level on road closures during works and events.
As for Venlo, you will also be kept up to date on everything current in and around the business parks in Venlo via the news items under Park management.
Free logistics advice
Want to make your company's logistics smarter and more sustainable? Then get free and tailored advice from a logistics broker. https://www.venlo.nl/gratis-logistiek-advies
Zero-emission zone for vans and trucks
The centre of Venlo will get a zero-emission zone on 1 January 2027. Many vans and trucks will then be allowed to enter this area only if they are zero-emission. https://www.venlo.nl/zero-emissiezone-bestel-en-vrachtautos
