Healthcare institution Phusis may set up additional reception spots for 24-hour care at ‘t Ruige Veld in Rolde. The city council of AA and Hunze has withdrawn a ban on an expansion of the night care.
According to the Mayor and Aldermen (B&W), the prohibition can be off the table, because there are now good conversations with the owners of ‘t Ruige Veld about the future of the site. Moreover, the Council of State determined that a general ban on night shelter is wrong.
With the decision, there is an end to a long -standing battle of the municipality against the care institution to completely ban the night care.
Phusis has wanted to be able to catch more clients day and night since 2021 than is now allowed. The College of Mayor and Aldermen (B&W) wanted to get rid of the night care.
This was mainly due to problems with regard to care provision and nuisance caused by clients in the past. Aa and Hunze feared an increase in nuisance in the area when more night care places were added.
The city council established the prohibition on extra night care during a private council meeting in October 2024. In this way, the municipality of the Municipality of the Council of State, which stipulated two months later, there are not enough reasons to completely prohibit 24-hour care.
Opposition parties GroenLinks and D66 agreed to the ban at the time, but afterwards regret it. The parties believe that the college has withheld information for the city council.
A large part of the nuisance reports about the rugged field appears to have been done by Phusis itself, not by local residents. “The council has therefore made a decision on the basis of incorrect information and the college takes no responsibility for that,” says Jannie Schonewille of GroenLinks.
Moreover, the parties believe that the city council has acted in the wrong way with the new prohibition on undermining the Council of State. “We have to attract that as a city council,” says Schonewille.
Alderman Ivo Berghuis (Gemeentebelangen) does not agree and believes that the complaints were so serious that an expansion ban was rightly requested from the council.
According to the alderman, relatively few reports have been made by local residents does not mean that nothing is wrong at the rough field. Berghuis: “It can be silence before the storm, but we are currently trusting that the care will be continued in a good way.”
That does not prevent GroenLinks and D66 from submitting a motion of mourning against the college to reinforce their displeasure. They want the mayor and aldermen to show more self -reflection. The CDA agrees
Coalition parties Gemeentebelangen, PvdA and VVD find the criticism of the opposition incomprehensible and reject the motion.
Bertus Reinders of Gemeentebelangen points out that it was the council itself that agreed to the prohibition. “You can then continue to cut in at the college, but it did not decide. We did that ourselves.”