Ultimately, the catering industry man goes to court if he does not find a willing ear from Staatsbosbeheer. Because he sees his own restaurant, for which he has a lease until 2026, in jeopardy due to future competition. Orsel is also disappointed with the pop-up catering kiosk that is suddenly placed at the swimming lake of the Gasselterveld in the summer. “There may be no competing catering establishments within a radius of a thousand meters, this has been contractually agreed, this is contrary to that,” is his accusation.
This also applies to the new, large catering pavilion that Staatsbosheer wants to build at the Gasselterveld. And where, according to Orsel, SBB ‘already has a party in mind’. “I just can’t prove it yet.” He would also have liked to have a chance for this new pavilion. “I’m already sitting there with ‘t Nije Hemelriek, but it seems as if I don’t exist.”
The fact that the judge has now definitively ruled in his favor is good for the catering industry man. “It was a tough emotional time for us. Hopefully that is now behind us. They won’t just get us out of here. And even though our lease runs until 2026, they won’t get rid of us that easily. Tenants often turn out to be very to have power. And they are not just done with us either,” he concludes belligerently, now that he has won the case.
In the previous procedure, Orsel had also negotiated a buyout sum with Staatsbosbeheer and Werkplein Drentsche Aa. This should amount to 900,000 euros. Or else about the possibility that he could run the newly built pavilion. But the parties could not reach an agreement. That is why the judge still ruled.
Staatsbosbeheer was not yet able to respond to the court ruling this evening.