Welfare
City Architect and Spatial Quality Committee meetings
Public meetings of the City Architect and the Committee on Spatial Quality (CRK) are held in the City Hall Meeting Center whenever possible. Meetings can be attended online and at City Hall. Plan submitters and designers will be notified of the meetings.
Speaking Rights
Are you an interested party and would you like to attend the meeting of the City Architect or Committee on Spatial Quality or exercise your right to speak? Please contact us via the e-mail address below. We will then work with you to find a suitable way to do this.
A written statement can be submitted up to 2 days before the meeting using the e-mail address below. Your statement will then be read aloud to the city architect at the meeting.
Attending meeting
Interveners and stakeholders can attend the City Building Inspector or Spatial Quality Commission meetings held at the meeting center, online or at City Hall. Online attendance does depend on technical capabilities. To attend the meeting, please register using the email address below.
Questions and contact
For questions and contact with the city master builder and the Spatial Quality Committee, please contact the secretariat via e-mail: welstandinfo@zoetermeer.nl.
City architect meetings
Here you will find the agendas and minutes of the current year's city master builder meetings. In the agenda you will see where the meeting will be held or if it will be held online. Meetings are usually held on Thursdays.
Spatial Quality Committee meetings
Here you will find the agendas and minutes of the meetings of the Spatial Quality Commission for the current year. In the agenda, you can see where the meeting is being held or if it will take place online. Meetings are usually held on a Friday.
Walk-in meeting city architect
| Due to the holidays, there will be no walk-in hours on Thursday, December 26, 2024 and Thursday, January 2, 2025. |
City architect Ronald Knappers holds walk-in consultations every Thursday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. for anyone with building plans in Zoetermeer. Would you like to know whether your building plan complies with the building regulations? The city architect inspires and stimulates you towards more environmental quality.
Feel free to ask the city architect for advice. You can also come here with other questions about spatial quality in Zoetermeer. The city architect does not answer questions relating to the zoning plan or an environmental permit. For these you can contact the environmental desk.
Time: every Thursday from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Where: table Architecture Point at the Environment Desk in City Hall on the first floor
City Architect
Ronald Knappers
Committee on Spatial Quality
- Ronald Knappers, city architect and chairman
- Michiel Enderman, heritage expert and deputy chairman
- Joosje van Geest, heritage expert
- Marjolein Peters, urban planner
- Jan Maurits van Linge, landscape architect
- Maarten van Bremen, architect
Secretariat
- Margriet Panman, secretary city architect
- Margriet Panman, secretary Spatial Quality Committee
- Leonie van Dijk, official support Spatial Quality Committee and city architect
- Nikky van Vught, official support Spatial Quality Committee and city architect
For the Zoetermeer Commission on Spatial Quality ordinance, see:
Overheid.nl | Regulation on the Municipal Commission on Spatial Quality, Zoetermeer 2022
Welstands note Zoetermeer
The Welstandsnota contains the criteria on which the city architect bases his recommendations. The memorandum distinguishes three levels that can be assigned to an area: lee, regular and intensive. As the level increases, there are more criteria. The level of prosperity and the criteria are on pages B-1 and B-2 of the Welstandsnota.
Image quality plans
In addition to the Welstandsnota, image quality plans have been adopted for parts of Zoetermeer. These image quality plans also contain criteria on which the city architect bases his recommendations. These criteria are only valid for the area for which the image quality plan has been adopted.