Alderman acknowledges: Ahold’s name “unintentionally” visible in WOB document

It was indeed not the intention to make the name of Ahold known to the opponents of the construction of a distribution center in the Lutkemeerpolder in Nieuw-West.

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This is evident from a letter sent today from alderman Marieke van Doorninck (Spatial Planning) to the city council. “The action group found the name in a WOB decision of 24 November 2020 published by the municipality, in which the name was unintentionally still visible on a page,” the alderman writes.

Forget

The activists already announced on Friday that the municipality had forgotten to paint the name black in some places. Van Doorninck was not yet available for comment at the time, but Ahold confirmed if requested, we can investigate the possibilities for a logistics point. It would be an exploration phase.

Van Doorninck writes today in the letter that it concerns a reservation agreement, which has been concluded with the Joint Exploitatie Maatschappij (GEM) Lutkemeer, which was established by the municipality and Schiphol Area Development Company (SADC). It would be an agreement “for the benefit of possible development”.

Construction ready

The Party for the Animals wants a debate with Van Doorninck about the distribution center during a committee meeting on 9 June. “According to a spokesperson for Albert Heijn, this would only be an exploratory phase. In the meantime, the municipality is preparing a plot of five hectares for construction, so as to be able to deliver it in the third quarter of 2021.”

Since 2017 fight local residents already for the preservation of the Lutkemeerpolder, a nature reserve in Nieuw-West with the last piece of historic agricultural land in the city.

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