Two farmers from Laaghalen traveled to The Hague to hand over a petition to MPs. In Assen, the elderly live with students, while people may soon be permanently living in a holiday park in De Kiel. You can read and see that and more in the week of Drenthe.
But we started on Monday with news from an agricultural area at Oudemolen and Zeegse. This is because we work there in the context of the Roodzanden project to turn a field of nature. For this, the top layer of the field must be excavated and removed in around 2,000 truck rides. All this to stimulate biodiversity in the area.
And we stayed in the agricultural sector on Tuesday. The Boeren Albert Piel and Roel Oldenburger from Laaghalen offered a petition in the Lower House. The two have a farm in the area and are in danger of losing it because the Ministry of Defense is expanding the training ground at De Haar. The farmers believe that the plan is unnecessarily at the expense of fertile agricultural land. As an alternative, they propose to use the site for both nature and agriculture. Then Defense can also use the area.
In the Amstelflat in Assen, an experiment was started to fight loneliness in the elderly by having them live together with students. And the experiment was good, because it will be extended by a year. Students Merel, Eline and Ezra organize activities in the senior apartment such as film evenings or a summer barbecue. Housing corporation Actium is pleased with the efforts of the students and it will also roll out in the Ekke Faberflat in Assen. “I do not rule out that it will also happen at another place,” said Wonen Mireille van Dijk of Actium.
Three suspects who have been arrested in the investigation into the art robbery in the Drents Museum in Assen are not being prosecuted. The Public Prosecution Service thinks that the trio helped the main suspects, but cannot prove that they knew that the robbery would happen. Burglars invaded the Drents Museum in the art. They looted a golden helmet and three golden bracelets. They have not yet been found.
Owners of Huizen at De Tip recreation park in the Kiel will soon be allowed to live there. The municipality of Coevorden wants to allow permanent residence at the holiday park. “The minister is working on a scheme in which people are allowed to live in a park for a maximum of ten years. But we in the municipality of Coevorden are opting for a structural solution. Residents now get certainty for the long term,” says Alderman Steven Stegen (BBC2014). Yet the bullet is not yet completely through the church. The city council still has to approve the environmental plan and adjustments to the area still have to be made.