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By Christof Roche
The citizens’ initiative “Green North Düsseldorf” (GND) is continuing to put pressure on the planned large-scale construction project “Nördlich Kalkumer Schlossallee” and is inviting people to a public information event in the Theodor-Fliedner-Gymnasium (Kalkumer Schlossallee 28) on November 21st at 7 p.m. The spokeswoman for the neighborhood alliance, Gabriele Gießmann, told NordNews that numerous citizens were “not sufficiently informed about the planned new building project”. Now that the city is setting out to tackle the development plan, “it is a good time to remedy the information deficit. We stay on top of the topic.”
The citizens’ initiative criticizes that the development would “irreversibly damage nature and landscape protection areas and irretrievably destroy valuable arable land” on an area of around 34 hectares. There is also a lack of a concept for sustainable transport connections. In addition, the city of Düsseldorf is violating its own climate protection goals of the black-green town hall cooperation with the project.
Gießmann emphasized once again that the initiative was not fundamentally against building. But instead of sealing areas on a large scale, it is better to “carefully densify elsewhere.” The large-scale construction project in Kaiserswerth plans to build 550 planned, five-story residential units for around 2,200 new residents.
