📋 Tender Overview
The Province of Limburg has started an unburdening program for small social property owners. This program will run until January 1 2024. Property owners with social real estate can be relieved free of charge during the duration of the program if they make the real estate more sustainable. Various sustainability coaches and project facilitators are made available for this.Depending on the needs and demands of the property owner the sustainability coaches and project facilitators offer support in making social real estate more sustainable. They can among other things make a portfolio roadmap a Sustainable Multi-Year Maintenance Plan or an energy scan. In addition the supporters can map out the financing options. However the sustainability measures are not financed from the unburdening programrefers to another websiteopens external websiteLetters of IntentSmall municipalities with fewer than 25000 inhabitants on the reference date 1 October 2020 are an important target group of the program these municipalities often own a large part of the social real estate. At the moment four of the fourteen small Limburg municipalities have signed a letter of intent. The other ten municipalities are expected to follow.ConversationsSustainability coaches have recently held talks with the municipalities. This has shown that municipalities need support and unburdening in the sustainability process. For example the real estate portfolio is mapped out together and a step-by-step plan is drawn up from there. It is also clear that help is required in the administrative decision-making process in order to arrive at sound council decisions.Types of helpNot only does the program offer help in drawing up a step-by-step plan it also looks at how to apply for an energy label tailor-made advice is given for a specific building and help is provided with the tender guidelines for implementing the sustainability measures.Saving money and the environmentDeputy Maarten van Gaans-Gijbels As a responsible director I regularly have discussions about the options for making buildings more sustainable. Every time I am positively surprised at how fast the developments in this area are going and what options there are for making buildings use less fossil energy. Our coaches know all about this and can offer building owners and managers tailor-made assistance. This saves both money and the environment .extra budgetMaking social real estate such as schools government buildings healthcare institutions and national monuments more sustainable is important to achieve the climate objectives. That is why the cabinet announced on Budget Day that it would make 525 million euros available for making social real estate more sustainable.The largest part about 340 million euros will be spent on a subsidy scheme for making social real estate more sustainable which will run in three tranches from mid-2022 to mid-2024.125.5 million euros will go to making various government real estate more sustainable.Finally 59.5 million euros will be used to expand the Unburdening Program for property owners.The already started Relief Program for social real estate and the sustainability program of NOC-NSF will be extended.
