A mega stable for nineteen thousand pigs on the Logtsebaan in Oirschot will definitely not be built. The province of Brabant and the municipality of Oirschot announced this on Wednesday morning. The announcement comes as no surprise.
In June, the Oirschot municipal council voted unanimously in favor of collaboration with the development company Ruimte voor Ruimte, which wanted to buy the pig farm in order to prevent the construction of the stables right next to the Kampina nature reserve. The sale is said to be worth around 2 million euros.
“We have now succeeded in reaching agreement with the owner about the sale of his company,” the province and municipality said on Wednesday morning. With that, the mega stable is definitively off the track.
Haggling since 2008
Since 2008, there has been haggling about the arrival of the mega stables. At that time, the municipality gave the green light for the major extension to the Logtsebaan. Later, the province also agreed to this, to the frustration of Natuurmonumenten and the Brabant Environmental Federation (BMF). Those organizations have been challenging the permits from the very beginning.
The matter was litigated for ten years, until the Council of State decided that the permits could not be revoked. In the meantime, the municipality and province also changed their position. They also saw the arrival of the mega stables as ‘undesirable’.
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