Residents of Mooi Schipborg recreational park will have a year to make a plan to turn the park into a residential area. The municipality of Aa en Hunze is taking a step back. If there is no good plan, the municipality will intervene.
The discussions between the municipality and homeowners in recent years did not lead to the desired result: an approach that all homeowners and members of the Owners’ Association (VvE) agree with.
There has hardly been any recreation at the recreation park for years, the houses in the park are permanently inhabited. To make habitation legal, the park must change. According to the municipality, moving homes and rearranging plots is the biggest challenge.
Homes will also have to be renovated or demolished for new construction. This is necessary because permanent homes must meet different requirements than recreational homes.
In recent years we have been working on making plans. 80 percent of the homeowners could live with the changes put on paper. But the municipality believes that 80 percent is not enough, 95 percent must support the plans.
In addition, there is a ruling by the Council of State that states that in the event of a change in ownership relationships, every member of the homeowners’ association must agree to a change. “It means that a transformation plan at this park can only succeed with the consent of all members of the VvE.”
That is not the case now, the municipality concludes, despite ‘great willingness to compromise on the part of the municipality’.
The municipality is now taking a step back. Stopping the talks completely would mean that the transformation will definitely not go ahead and that Aa en Hunze will have to enforce it, which means that residents will be fined for illegal occupancy.
Aa and Hunze don’t want to go that way yet. The homeowners’ association is now being asked to come up with a plan that all parties agree with. The association has one year to do this. “We want to offer the residents of Mooi Schipborg peace and quiet to discuss mutual differences and find a solution.”
If that solution is not available by December 1, 2024, the municipality will still enforce the park.
VvE chairman Jaap Verhulst does not yet want to respond in detail to the municipality’s decision. First he wants to discuss the letter with the other members of the association.