Vink and the other speakers then listed a laundry list of critical notes. The number of expected transport movements will affect air quality and noise pollution. According to Vink, Solidiam has indicated that there will be at least two transport movements per loading dock. “There are a total of 60 loading docks, so 120 transport movements.” Expected working hours are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. “This means that in the early morning there will be parking right under our bedroom windows.”
The arrival of the building is an attack on the view, according to the speakers. “If I had known this, I would not have bought this house,” said one of them. “I fear a serious fall in the value of my home”. I think the municipality is responsible for that.” He denounced the text in the management regulation for the business park, which refers to a green, sustainable business park that is integrated into the landscape. “What do you mean landscape integration? Why the emphasis on green structure? I could never have guessed that such a building would be allowed here. The municipality does not take its own rules seriously.”
Most respondents indicate that they had read up in advance before moving to Oranjedorp. The idea is that several prevailed that it was the intention that about forty companies would come to the adjacent industrial park. Not the one colossus that is coming now. “Goodbye rising sun and view and hello noise and nuisance,” said a third speaker. “This doesn’t deserve the beauty prize.”
Vink denounces what she considers to be poor communication between the municipality of Emmen and the village council. “They really screwed up here.” Solidiam applied for a permit on July 1 without informing Oranjedorp. An information meeting was held on 1 December. It deserves anything but a beauty prize, says Vink. “Is this the form of participation that the municipality has in mind? To what extent does the municipality actually take its EOPs (Erkende Overleg Partner, or village and district councils) seriously?”