Cabinet plans large-scale residential areas near four Dutch cities
Large-scale residential neighborhoods are planned for the coming years in the areas around Alkmaar, Hengelo/Enschede, Apeldoorn, and Helmond. This is stipulated in the new Spatial Planning Memorandum, a major plan outlining how the Netherlands will look in the coming decades.
The plan calls for at least 3,500 new homes to be built at each location. The national government will oversee these new construction projects, writes outgoing Minister Mona Keijzer (Housing).
The Spatial Planning Memorandum makes important decisions about how the Netherlands will be organized in the coming decades. The memorandum will be discussed in the Council of Ministers on Friday, but RTL Nieuws has already obtained it.
The four new locations will be added to the seventeen large construction sites already designated by the previous cabinet.
In several other regions, which are currently relatively quiet, the government wants to focus on urbanization by stimulating the economy and the construction of new homes. These include Frisian cities, the northern part of North Holland, Harderwijk-Zeewolde, Southeast Drenthe, and the Zeeland cities.
These areas need a boost, otherwise they will no longer be attractive enough and will continue to depopulate. In the future, "restructuring," another term for demolition and new construction, will also take place here to renew the housing stock.
These regions can also expect to be chosen more often in the coming years as locations for new Defense construction or large-scale energy projects.
"For example, barracks and the construction of power plants are creating new demand for housing and support services in Zeewolde and Vlissingen," the Spatial Planning Memorandum states. "With targeted investments, we are giving an additional boost to regional urbanization ambitions."
Transport of dangerous goodsThe memorandum also promises that in the future, the transport of hazardous substances such as hydrogen and ammonia will be carried out as much as possible via newly constructed pipelines. This is to prevent trains carrying flammable substances from having to pass through residential areas, as is currently the case.
The Dutch government is facilitating the Delta Rhine Corridor to create new underground infrastructure between the Port of Rotterdam and the German border near Venlo. A hydrogen pipeline and two CO2 pipelines will be constructed by 2033.
Industrial estatesIn the new Spatial Planning Memorandum, Keijzer also praises the 3,800 business parks in the Netherlands. She wants compensation for business parks swallowed up by housing development "where necessary." "Locally if possible, and regionally otherwise."
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