Welfare

The building standards memorandum defines the criteria you can use to determine whether your building plan meets the requirements. If it does, the environmental permit may not be refused for reasonable welfare reasons.

• Aa-Strang business park
• Business park 't Rietveld
• Beggelderdijk-Beggelderveldweg
• Bekendijk Bredevoort
• Buitenplaats Bredevoort 2003
• Buitenplaats Bredevoort 2012 - supplementary
• Center Aalten
• The Crow Tree
• The Pass Dinxperlo
• Keizerweg 1 De Heurne
• Kerkstraat 1 Aalten
• Keupenstraat-Europastraat Dinxperlo
• Estate 't Clooster
• The Wolboom Estate
• Pepper Street Aalten
• Former Rev. van Dijkschool Dinxperlo
• Residential care center Hoge Veld

Would you like to see a visual quality plan? Please send an e-mail to gemeente@aalten.nl.

The municipality of Aalten has the possibility to intervene if structures are in serious conflict with reasonable requirements of prosperity. This applies to both licenced and unlicensed buildings. If this is the case, there is an 'excess'. Often this relates to the improper execution of buildings with a disturbing effect on the environment through poor use of materials, strongly deviating or contrasting use of color or excessively conspicuous or ineffective advertising, etc.

Pursuant to Article 13 of the Housing Act, mayor and aldermen may write to the owner, or the person authorized on other grounds, of an already existing structure to rectify the conflicting situation.

In the case of an excess, mayor and aldermen must be able to refer to specific criteria in the aesthetics memorandum. The criteria are formulated as follows:

•  visually or physically closing off a structure to its surroundings.
• denying or destroying architectural values or details when modifying a structure.
• partial demolition, collapse or neglect of a structure.
• A structure that is seriously damaged on the outside in whole or in part.
• a structure is visibly neglected (evidenced by signs such as broken windows, boarded up windows, rotted wood structures, peeling paint or stucco, deteriorated gutter structures and grouting, loose bricks, missing roof tiles, for example).
• a structure or part thereof is in a visible state of neglect and/or there is serious overdue maintenance which (partially) negates the original character of the structure.
• shabby material use on yard fences, outbuildings and canopies that are visible from public areas. Examples of shabby material use include reed mats, old sheet metal, corrugated metal or tarpaulin.
• shabby material use on facade paneling visible from public spaces. Examples of shabby material use include shiny plastic scrap and industrial cladding.
• deterioration due to overdue maintenance.
• Applying bright or contrasting colors.
• too intrusive advertisements.
• too gross a violation of what is common in the area.
• severe neglect of the appearance of a structure.
• the detailing of facades is seriously disturbed by (parts of) installations or other additions.