The construction of a country house on the Schiphorsterweg in De Schiphorst, diagonally opposite hotel De Havixhorst, will have to wait for the time being. The neighbor has filed an objection with the Council of State, because it threatens to be at the expense of expansion plans of his adjacent horse farm.
There is now a farm on the site where the country house – a complex with eight apartments spread over three floors – is to be built. The initiators have convinced the municipality of Meppel to make room in the zoning plan for a ‘life-cycle-proof’ living environment, into which the country house fits.
One of the initiators is Jos Wijland, a catering entrepreneur who previously operated De Havixhorst. He is disappointed with the neighbor’s attitude. “Last week I thought we had reached an agreement and that the objections were off the table,” Wijland said yesterday at the Council of State.
The neighbor only fears that Randstad residents will soon move into the new country house. “Then people come from outside who know better than the people who have lived there for a long time,” he says. The neighbor expects that new residents will then complain about manure and the stench, which will make the expansion plans of his horse company more difficult.
The objector therefore wants the amended zoning plan to be annulled. If not, he wants the municipality to sit down with him first, in order to enforce guarantees for his own expansion. “The ball is in the municipality’s court,” he says.
The Council of State will make its decision in approximately six weeks.