The municipality of Westerveld is given four months to adjust a housing plan in Dwingeloo. The Council of State has decided that. If the municipality succeeds, the developer can continue with plans for a hundred new homes in the village.
The houses must come on a field near the business park along the Nijverheidsweg.
An entrepreneur in Dwingeloo believes that the houses are too close to his company. He went to the Council of State who did not go in most criticism. The highest administrative court finds that the entrepreneur is already limited by the existing homes in the neighborhood in his business and expansion options. Moreover, the new homes do not provide extra (sound) restrictions.
The Council of State does not agree with the criticism that the new neighborhood will lead to a much too large increase in traffic nuisance on Nijverheidsstraat, Kampen and the Kibbelstuk. Once the hundred homes have been built, an average of 955 car movements will be added on the three roads every day. And even if most cars start driving over the business site via Nijverheidsstraat, then there is no man overboard yet, the judge concludes. The maximum capacity of those roads is between 5,000 to 6,000 car movements per day.
At the moment there are around 960 cars and trucks on Nijverheidstraat every day. Something is possible, the Council of State argues. The judge also sees no problem in the potentially substantial increase in car traffic on the kibble piece. That road now has no more than 51 car movements per day.
The municipality has to get started with the zoning plan. In the current version, informal care homes and other sound -sensitive buildings are allowed near the entrepreneur. That is not the intention of the municipality, who does not want people to live or work too close to a nuisance company.
If the municipality tightens this scheme, the Council of State can give final approval.