Large Residential Areas Must Be Built Near Apeldoorn, Helmond, Alkmaar, and Hengelo in the Coming Decades. This Involves A minimum of 3,500 houses per city, and in Total, The Large Construction Projects Must Yield 30,000 Houses.
The Cabinet had Previously Designated Seventeen Locations Where Houses Are Being On A Large Scale: A Total Of 400,000. The Large Extra Districts near Cities are included in the Draft Spatial Planning Note, which was Established by the Caretaker Cabinet on Friday. There will also be 127 narrower construction projects, ranging from four hundred to two thousand houses per location.
That spatial planning note is a comprehensive document of more than 350 pages. It is Full Of Maps Of What The Netherlands Should Look Like in 2050. In Broad Terms, The Country Will Not Be Drastically Changed, But There Will Still Be Changes in 25 Years.
On top of the 8 million homes we have now, an additional 1.65 million homes are needed. The Note refers to “The Largest Development Task in Dutch History”.
The document does not specific Street by Street Where the Extra Houses Will Be Located. But in General Terms, it is clear that large residential areas must be near the four aforementioned cities. Also, “a small neighborhood” with about a hundred houses must be near each place.
No More Building in Floodplains of Rivers
Feer single-family homes will be build, as there are more and more single people. Building in Floodplains of Rivers is No Longer Allowed, in order to give them space in the event of flooding.
Farmers will be stopping in the coming decades, freeing up hectares of agricultural land. But Those Fields and Meadows Should not Simply Be Given a Different Purpose. This must be deal with “carefully”, accordance to the cabinet.
First, it must be examined Whether Other Land is available. At the same time, the cabinet believes that other societal tasks should not be delayed because no country is available.
Less Nitrogen Emissions Around Protected Nature
The Cabinet also wants nature to be given space in the next 25 years. There should not only be room for this in protected nature reserves, but also in and around villages and cities.
Less Fertilizers and Pesticides Must Enter the Water Around Protected Nature Areas (Natura 2000), and Nature Goals Must Be Achieved. The Cabinet also Wants to Reduce Nitrogen Emissions Around Those Protected Nature Areas.
In The Peat Meadow Area (Green Heart, Southwest Friesland), The Groundwater Level Must Be High. The Groundwater is of Kept Low there for farmers. As a result, the peat comes into contact with oxygen and partial breaks down. This causes the soil to sink. A Higher Groundwater Level of 20 to 40 centimeters Below the Surface must prevent this.
Heavy Industry Stays Where It Already is
Heavy Industry Should Mainly Be Located In The Areas Where It Already is. Think of the Port of Rotterdam, The North Sea Canal Area and Chemelot in Limburg.
It will not be prohibited for a chemical factory to locate somewhere else in the future, but the conditions in the current industrial areas must be made so suuitable that companies only because to build their factories there. Companies in Greenhouse Horticulture will also be clustered.
The Spatial Planning Note is not Yet Final. The Caretaker Cabinet Has Agreed to the Draft, but from October 6 to mid-december everyone can let them know what they think of it. Those comments will then be processed again, and then the house of representatives must also its approval.