This year’s winter emergency shelter for the homeless in Eindhoven will also start without a permit. The choice of location in Meerhoven was made too late to ensure an environmental permit in time.

The municipality therefore uses the authority to allow building on a piece of business park Trade Forum without acting. This is stated Tuesday in a letter to the city council. Last year, too, the winter emergency shelter for the homeless began without a permit because a location was found far too late, even though shelter organization Springplank040 had warned against it. That made opponents hopeless in summary proceedings.

Read more at Ed.nl (in Dutch) and Meerhoven.nl.