Residential building Eleanor Roosevelt Avenue 3-29
Eleanor Roosevelt Avenue 3-29 is one of 14 sites in Zoetermeer identified by the City Council in 2018 for an early start of housing development to meet the high demand for housing in our city.
State of affairs January 2024
The owner and initiator Eleanor B.V., in cooperation with Wonam, intends to replace the former Rabobank office at Eleanor Roosevelt Avenue 3-29 with 4 apartment buildings varying in height. The circular field and play facilities will remain green and public. The Eleanor Park plan meets the basic principles established by the City Council in a plot passport for this location. These starting points include the maximum building height, the number and type of homes and parking. The site is currently zoned Office. To enable residential development here, the city council adopted a new zoning plan on Jan. 30, 2023.
After the "Eleanor Roosevelt Avenue 3-29" zoning plan was adopted by the City Council on Jan. 30, 2023, the decision was available for review for 6 weeks. During this period, an appeal against the council decision was filed with the Administrative Law Division of the Council of State. An application for suspension (preliminary injunction) was also filed with the Council of State.
On May 23, 2023, the suspension request was first considered at a hearing. On June 5, 2023, the Council of State ruled and denied the request for suspension. The ruling of the preliminary injunction court is provisional in nature and is not binding in the proceedings on the merits. The full judgment can be viewed on the website of the Council of State(www.raadvanstate.nl) under the following number: ECLI:NL:RVS:2023:2151.
It is now waiting for the State Council to hear the appeals filed against the zoning plan. This is called the proceedings on the merits. The hearing at the Council of State is scheduled for Feb. 6, 2024. After the hearing, the State Council will normally issue a ruling within 6 weeks. When this ruling is known, you will find more information about what happens next here.
Participation
The sketch plan was presented to local residents and stakeholders at an online meeting on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. View the report of this meeting. From April 20, 2021 through May 4, 2021, local residents could respond to the sketch design and make suggestions for the green field via doemee.zoetermeer.nl.
doemee.zoetermeer.nl - Eleanor Rooseveltlaan housing development plan
The Final Participation Report answers the questions and reactions that have been made during the participation process. It also describes a number of possible adjustments to the plan in response to reactions, which will be further investigated by the developer in the continuation of the planning.
About the changes made, local residents received a letter with a reference to a presentation from developer Wonam in early December 2021. This letter and presentation can be found at the bottom of this page under documents.
Interested parties can sign up for Wonam's newsletter by emailing: eleanorpark@wonam.nl.