Tennis club Diever wants to make the land of its association available for sixty (flexible) homes. Chairman Nico Werumeus Buning makes that suggestion tonight. Instead, the association wants to share new accommodation in the village together with other associations. It seems to him to be a better plan than the plan that the council of the municipality of Westerveld currently has.
In the current plan, the municipality of Westerveld wants to build twenty flexible homes behind the Stad&Esch school in Diever, next to the De Vlijt mill and the football fields. The homes must meet a number of requirements.
Werumeus Buning comments on this. “You can read that this is a forced plan. The front houses have to be lower because of the mill, the rear houses will soon be inconvenienced.”
He points to the exciting music used during the warm-up on the football field. According to him, other local residents are already suffering from this. There is also a parking shortage and he sees that problem only getting worse. “I don’t envy the people who have to live there. Five days a week, the construction lights from the football fields shine in your house.”
That’s why he comes up with a different plan: “The location you choose is much more suitable for merging sports locations.” The tennis club has discussed this with the ice skating club. For example, there could be a roller skating rink with a small layer of water in the winter.
He is also considering communal changing facilities for all associations, a communal canteen and a new sustainable club building. So that the municipality only has to open its wallet once. In return, the tennis club hopes to expand with a padel court.
The plan is not yet complete, Werumeus Buning explains, but discussions are already being held with the council. We are waiting for the green light from the football club. Due to the merger with Wapse, this is still sensitive according to Werumeus Buning.
However, most council members are happy with the current plans of the municipality of Westerveld, which, according to council members, has attracted little criticism from the area.
According to Geke Kiers (DSW), Werumeus Buning’s plan is a ‘beautiful future scenario’. “But we now have to come up with short-term solutions. The current plan is fast and good enough. We are not in favor of time-consuming changes to the plans now.”
Gerjo Ballast (CDA) also shares this opinion: “There are many ideas for the long term.” Jannie Mones (Municipal Interests) adds: “We are happy with action.”
Next week the city council will vote definitively on the municipality’s plan. Various amounts and terms are still on the table for this.