Two brothers today expressed their objection to the Council of State against the construction of 29 homes in the Nijstad recreational area in Hoogeveen. They think it will be done in the future with the peace around their nearby recreation farm.
There will be 16 water homes on the western former sand extraction plas, which borders their land. The two brothers went to look at similar houses in Woerden. “They are huge floating homes,” says Jaap Kuijvenhoven, one of the brothers. Far too close together in a pee of 400 by 500 meters, he thinks.
There will also be two so -called kangaroo houses. These are houses for informal care with a small house, explained project developer Olaf Janssen. The rest of the 29 homes will be on the other side of the western lake. There the Weidezicht West and Weidezicht Oost is called. The brothers have less objection to these eleven homes.
In Hoogeveen there is a great need for these new homes, according to a spokesperson for the municipality against court. Also to more expensive houses in the higher segment, because there are not much of it in Hoogeveen. Buyers will usually leave a home and that is good for the flow on the housing market, the municipality emphasizes.
The Kuijvenhoven brothers want Hoogeveen to first make an environmental impact report (EIA) about the consequences of the zoning plan for the surrounding nature. But the municipality does not think that is necessary because a research agency has already looked at it. For the bats in the area that may be disturbed, the province will grant an exemption, as is expected.
It is De Kuijvenhovens, who themselves live outside Hoogeveen, not just about the 29 new homes at the Western Plas. At the Eastern Plas the brothers hangs the development above the head of a holiday park with 134 homes and a hotel with 60 rooms, they say. They look forward to it with great worries.
The brothers object that Hoogeveen has cut the two plans. “All in all, it is a disproportionate development. It had had to be integrally in one plan,” they say.
The municipal administration states that they are two separate zoning plans with various developers. There is no question of cutting. The judge of the Council of State says that she can only judge the plan for the 29 homes. Ruling will follow in a few weeks.