Many Drenthe municipalities have not even made an inventory of whether office buildings meet the standard. And that while enforcement, or control, lies with the municipalities. Enforcement is not possible at all without knowing which buildings are involved.
Meppel, Assen and Westerveld know how things are going and Emmen and Borger-Odoorn roughly. Midden-Drenthe, Aa en Hunze, De Wolden/Hoogeveen, Coevorden and Noordenveld have no idea how many office buildings do not meet the standard. Despite repeated questions, the municipality of Tynaarlo has not provided any answers.
In Meppel, 65 percent of the office buildings (120 offices) had label C or higher on 1 January. 26 percent did not yet have a label (49 offices) and 16 percent had label D or lower. Practice has shown that about half of the office buildings without a label do meet the standard; the owners only have to apply for that label. The actual percentage of office buildings with label C is therefore very likely higher than 65 percent.
In Assen, 47 percent of the office buildings (254 offices) met the standard. 8 percent had label D or worse and the rest (246 offices, 45 percent) had not yet been labeled. Here too, possibly half of the offices without a label do meet the requirements.
GroenLinks in Assen already asked questions to the mayor and aldermen in January about the energy labels of office buildings. Council member Paul van der Kolk indicated that he was shocked by the answers as described. “In April last year, the municipality wrote to all offices to point out this obligation to users. We therefore very much wonder why only half of them now meet the requirements,” Van der Kolk told the Dagblad of the Netherlands at the end of January. North. But Assen is the leader in Drenthe in terms of chasing office owners.
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