The Greater Copenhagen Authority ( often abbreviated HUR, literally: The Capital's Development Council) was a politically-governed organisation deciding regional development plans for the Metropolitan Copenhagen

Metropolitan Copenhagen

The term Metropolitan Copenhagen consist of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg municipalities and the former Copenhagen County, except for the municipalities Høje-Taastrup, Ledøje-Smørum, in all, 18 municipalities, and except parts of Ballerup, Greve , Ishøj, former Søllerød and former Værløse, ...

 area, Denmark

Denmark

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. The council started work in July 2000 and was as well as the counties

Counties of Denmark

Denmark was until December 31, 2006 divided into 15 counties , and 270 municipalities . On January 1, 2007, the counties were replaced by five Regions and the number of municipalities slashed to 98....

 and the Copenhagen Hospital Corporation abolished in the Municipality reform of 2007.

It had six areas to run and develop:

• public transport
  Public transport
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• regional and traffic planning
• Oresund
  Oresund
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   co-ordination and development
• industrial
  Industry
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   policy
• tourism
  Tourism
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• cultural life
  Culture
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Regional plan 2005

The regional plan for 2005 includes these development areas:

• boost recreational areas
  Recreation
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   to get the world’s best
• providing enough plots and building opportunities to ensure a rich and varied housing
  House
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   selection
• better business
  Business
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   environment
  Social environment
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• efficient infrastructure
  Infrastructure
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   for all forms of transport
  Transport
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The plan was decided after well-attended public meetings.

Reform of 2007

Due to the Municipality reform of 2007 the traffic authority part of HUR was joined with the two other traffic authorities of Zealand, STS and VT, and renamed to Movia

Movia (transit agency)

Trafikselskabet Movia is the public transport agency that is responsible for buses and certain local railways in Copenhagen and the part of Denmark east of the Great Belt, covering the regions Sjælland and Hovedstaden, except for Bornholm. It does not own any buses and trains itself, but pays...

. The regional planning part of HUR is now governed by Region Hovedstaden

Region Hovedstaden

The Capital Region of Denmark is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the...

, except for the former Roskilde Amt, which is part of Region Sjælland

Region Sjælland

Region Zealand is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of...

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