They walk to the large empty lawn on the edge of the village, against the A2. It must come on these grounds. First they had another piece of land. “The municipality said: no chance, and the neighborhood absolutely did not want us. So then you have to start again.” And now the gentlemen are years further and there is still no seniors complex. Reinier: “It also depends on the processes of local residents, people who say: I’ve always had a beautiful meadow in front of the door, why does it have to go for those old people.”
Bart (74) and Reinier (75) want to build their own senior citizens’ complex: ‘The elderly want to move on, but there are no homes’
