News item | 23-06-2025 | 12:00
Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning Minister Mona Keijzer takes almost all recommendations from the Advisory Report on Stoer Phase 1 that fall under its political responsibility. She changes technical building requirements, calls for co-authorities to deal more efficiently with local regulations regarding welfare and contracts, and does not sharpen the environmental performance requirements. Today, Minister Keijzer sent a letter to the House of Representatives with the response to the recommendations of the Advisory Group Stoer to realize more homes at lower costs faster.
Minister Keijzer: “The housing shortage is high and we have to build faster, more, cheaper homes. We have to adhere to many rules that lead to delay, higher costs and uncertainties. This tough advice is clear: those rules are all made with the best intentions, but the stacking of this is precisely the housing in the way of the requirements of the building and developing works and developments and developments in the Living environment and developments and developments in the Living Environment and Development Process and Development of Living Environment and Development Living Environment and Development Living and Development and Development Living Environment and Development Living Row) Bouwheels to report, so that I can talk to my colleagues in the cabinet about the other advice.
Effective
The minister wants to continue energetically on the various important topics from the advisory report. For example, the technical building requirements in the Bouwwerken Living Environment Decree are adjusted to prevent unnecessary cost increases, while retaining the basic quality of homes. This includes reducing the ceiling and door heights, allowing the use of steeper stairs and the relaxation of internal noise requirements.
The advice to scrap the accessibility requirements for balconies (including loggias and roof terraces) is not taken over, because this is the Dutch interpretation of the obligation arising from the UN Treaty Disability 2016.
Another important observation is that no local requirements are allowed on top of the BBL. The minister calls on builders and developers to report extra local requirements to the gear tables so that she can act against it. Furthermore, the announced tightening of the environmental performance requirement (MPG) for homes is not introduced. Instead, the minister prepares the construction sector for the Whole Life Cycle Global Warming Potential (WLC-GWP). This is the new European requirement for greenhouse gas emissions that the construction and use of homes must meet.
The Minister also calls on municipalities to do faster and more efficient welfare testing and to make use of model agreements between municipalities and landowners in the case of land policy. Other advice that is taken over are in the field of Netcongestie and Objection and Appeal whereby the treatment time is shortened. For example, acceleration of procedures can be realized by making more effective use of legal possibilities.
Next steps
With the aforementioned proposals on the site of Housing and Spatial Planning, the minister starts immediately. The changes to the BBL must be made next year, so that they have a positive effect on the desired housing production of at least 100,000 homes per year. In the short term, the Stoer Advisory Group will hand over its final report to Minister Keijzer. The decision -making and further elaboration of the report are discussed in the cabinet, after which the official cabinet reaction to the report follows in the autumn of 2025.