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The Provincial Executive GS wants to use a so-called PIP procedure to permit a permit for excavation and redevelopment of the De Hommert area in Beekdaelen. After the excavation period the area will be given a recreational destination in consultation with the municipality of Beekdaelen and local residents.GS have decided to do this. In doing so the Province of Limburg is implementing a 2011 agreement with the company LOrtye. That company then cooperated in a land exchange to enable the construction of the Buitenring Parkstad Limburg. Part of that agreement was the agreement that the Province of Limburg would endeavor to make excavation possible via a PIP Provincial Integration Plan.DevelopmentThe 2011 agreement is not the only reason for GS to cooperate. The extraction of raw materials is also a means to ultimately enable nature safety or recreation. Sand extraction in De Hommert contributes to solving the shortage of fill sand and cuneet sand. These shortages already exist in Limburg due to the exhaustion of the existing quarries.Integration planThe PIP is an instrument from the Spatial Planning Act Spatial Planning Act to convert the zoning of the area to an excavation location in this case. GS opt for a PIP in stages. The first steps are an independent investigation into the support for the planned excavation and an analysis and solutions for the expected increase in nitrogen deposition in the nearby N2000 areas. After completion of this further steps will be taken. Part of the PIP also includes a draft EIA and consultation and appeal procedures. Earlier ecological research in 2013 commissioned by the Province of Limburg has established that there are no objections under the Flora and Fauna Act against excavation at this location.The HommertThe excavation site is an area of approximately 4 hectares in Vaesrade municipality of Beekdaelen. After completion of all procedures the excavation and refurbishment will take five to a maximum of seven years. The start of excavations depends on the course of the PIP process.
