Parking Bos en Lommer closed for nuisance and intimidation Now

The parking lot of Merlijnstraat in Bos en Lommer will soon be closed. The district will soon put concrete blocks on the site because the inconvenience is too great. Police received more than fifty pieces of information on the site during the past period

. These fifty pieces of information concerned noise pollution, vast mountains of rubbish and intimidation of the inhabitants. Nowadays, the nuisance is daily and lasts sometimes late into the night.

In June, local residents had already talked to a group of young walkers who would cause a lot of commotion in the neighborhood.

A large proportion of the local population say they do not feel safe in the evenings and nights. Drug nuisance, criminal behavior and nuisance of parked cars and taxis are cited to explain this feeling.

Several measures because of the shooting

"A while ago, a shooting took place in the neighborhood and two police cars were burned, the inhabitants fear that it will happen again", writes the district in a letter addressed to the inhabitants.

As far as we know, this is the first time that the municipality has adopted such a radical measure of closing an audience. l & # 39; space.

The closure of the site is a superlative of all the measures already taken to try to limit the nuisance. There are already street coaches and daily force agents in the neighborhood, who also regularly discuss with people who "stay" at the scene. The police also regularly monitor.

In addition, additional lighting was installed to make the site less dark, but that did not improve either.

Provisional Solution: Parking Closure

The neighborhood is about to close the parking lot. "I opted for a feasible variant in the short term, namely the placement of concrete blocks," writes the portfolio owner, Jeroen van Berkel (Public Space).

The concrete blocks "not having the right image", the inhabitants are invited to think about a new temporary development of the site. The district now wants to wait for the effects of the closure, then decides in the summer of 2019 how it wishes to definitively solve the nuisance.