After many discussions with both the municipality and the gardeners, RAAK Development came up with a new proposal: the gardeners can now stay one year longer to find a suitable place themselves. But according to the gardeners, that is far too short. Agnes: “It sounds reasonable, but even the municipality says: we have nothing. They really need the space for housing. In that light, an allotment garden is not really necessary.” Joke Kramer, another tenant of an allotment garden, adds: “The ice cream club is also waiting for a location. And there are others. No, finding something within a year is really not going to work.”
Allotment gardens in Mijdrecht may stay longer, but dissatisfaction remains: ‘A year is far too short to find something new’
