The Weesper New -build district is popular with Amsterdammers who could not find a family home in the capital. Weesp has been part of Amsterdam for three years and they have to deal with the Stopera again. For years, residents on the town hall have been ringing the lagging facilities in their neighborhood. They were always told that it would be fine based on the forecasts.
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But those prognoses are not correct. Where the municipality assumed 1430 children of primary school age in 2032, there will be 2460 earlier. The difference is ‘substantial and has a major impact on the estimate of the number of requirements required,’ according to the figures.
Mistake
The error in the earlier estimate was in the expected outflow. Young families often leave the capital and so was calculated. But families settle down in the new -build neighborhood. When the Leeuw & Sluis neighborhood platform came with its own prognosis, calculation was made again and the error was discovered.
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The neighborhood platform is happy with the recalculation, says Alex van der Baan. “Less nice is that we have been trying to ask attention since 2018 that things are not going well here,” he says. “We were constantly told that it was not too bad, because there were prognoses. All politicians saw them as a holy notebook, while you now see how fragile they are.”
‘Costs a million or more’
Due to the recalculation, the municipality of Amsterdam must now deliver two primary schools earlier than planned. “A process that will cost a lot of money, because the municipality now has to build two legally required schools in a very short time,” says Van der Baan.
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Work has also been made of an extra childcare location. The city also looks at the accelerated construction of sports and play areas. But in the meantime the residents look further ahead, because those primary school children will also be puberty at some point. In the past, too little was taken into account in IJburg, resulting in nuisance caused by hanging youths.
Pause button
Van der Baan and his roommates want the municipality to press ‘the pause button’. They do not live in the neighborhood that the brochures once predicted. There is less green, more houses and too few facilities. Sports clubs are already bursting at their seams, for swimming lessons, children have to move to other municipalities.
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“First make sure that there will be a good, integral plan,” says Van der Baan. “Look at the wider capacity in the neighborhood, before you fully build the last sub -plan. This is the moment for pas. “
Exemplary
The situation in Weespersluis is exemplary for the Amsterdam residential construction of recent times. The Court of Audit recently warned in a report that the capital is building ‘unpleasant’ neighborhoods. To build as many homes as possible, facilities and accessibility are lagging behind.