The locations that are now in the picture were left after a search for housing for starters, transfer students and seniors. The council does not yet know whether the landowners are prepared to sell their land. The councilors see their task mainly as investigating the possibilities. Whether or not construction plans actually come to fruition is left to the owners and initiators who may see potential in it. “We are not going to expropriate or build anything ourselves,” says councilor Scholten. “And if an owner doesn’t want to sell his land, then it just stops.”
Soest councilors ask for building land in the polder: ‘We don’t want to build up the entire village’
