Challenges of Building New Developments Far from Polluting Roads – Insights from Wijchen Municipality

Also in the Rijk van Nijmegen, a number of these locations do not comply with the revised guideline. For example, the municipality of Wijchen has four. “Doing something with the guidelines will be difficult. We talk a lot about existing situations. If new developments occur in the future, we can look at how we can fit those guidelines into the new plans,” says alderman Twan van Bronkhorst of the municipality of Wijchen. But ensuring that a new building can be built far from a polluting road is quite a challenge in practice. “On the other side of the Westerdreef, the Groene Geest, a new school has to be built there. It was planned near the railway line. Guidelines also apply to the railway line, so we have moved it up a bit, but then we will soon be in the near the A326. It appears to be applicable there, but it is a challenge from practice, which we as a municipality encounter, to be able to build a school in the district,” says Van Bronkhorst.