Due to the structural change in agriculture, facilities for intensive livestock farming are on the rise. This development leads to conflicts because numerous concerns have to be balanced: urban land-use planning, protection of the environment and neighbourhood as well as the farmers’ fundamental rights such as property and exercise of a profession. An amending law from 2013 makes it more difficult for industrial farming to get a building licence. Another bill concerning such projects failed. The question arises whether building law is a suitable instrument for coordinating all interests.