News summary

  • The Beating Heart of Hoensbroek

    The Board of Mayor and Aldermen has adopted the Memorandum of Principles for Hoensbroek Center. The note outlines the picture for 2034. The center is then lively and vital, with a good mix of housing and facilities for residents, visitors and under

  • City office in rainbow colors to mark Pride Week Heerlen

    To bring extra attention to Pride Week in our city (September 1-7, 2024) and express our support for LGBTQA+, the rainbow flag will fly on the roof of City Hall. Heerlen municipality will also have the city office illuminated in rainbow colors from Monday evening, September 2, until Monday, September 8. After sunset, the building can be admired in rainbow colors.

  • Grant scheme for small initiatives Heritage Year

    In 2025, Heerlen is all about its rich history and promising future. In the coming year, the city will bustle with fascinating stories, large and small. With numerous events and activities, devised and carried out by young and old, we will celebrate the Year of Heerlen's Heritage in 2025. The Municipality of Heerlen helps small initiatives with a subsidy scheme. This can be applied for from September 1.

  • Minister Agema's visit to Heerlen

    Minister Fleur Agema of Public Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) visited Heerlen today to talk with Mayor Roel Wever and representatives of the Hospital Alliance. The visit was organized by the Ministry and the Regietafel (including Zuyderland and CZ).

  • Directing future social uses

    The College of Mayor and Aldermen has agreed to make available for inspection the draft environmental plan amendment "Social use possibilities. It is no longer obvious that properties with social use possibilities can be used for every social initiative.

  • Two new city poets in Heerlen

    Louie Hamers (1994) and Yana Wings (2008) have been elected the new city poet and young city poet of Heerlen. In doing so, they succeed Sven Vek. This fall they will be introduced to Heerlen during an inauguration.

  • Action day Hoofdstraat Hoensbroek: more than twenty premises checked

    Last June, the intervention team of the municipality of Heerlen inspected a large number of rental properties, nuisance properties, Chamber of Commerce-registered companies and garage boxes on the Hoofdstraat in Hoensbroek. The goal of the action day and the other inspections was to get a picture of the situation behind the front door and to tackle abuses to improve the Quality of Life and Safety, as part of the Social Safety approach.

  • Reuring arrangement Hoensbroek Center

    As of July 1, residents and business owners of Hoensbroek Centrum can also make use of the so-called reuring scheme. This is an initiative to come to more liveliness and meeting in Hoensbroek Center. People with surprising and creative ideas can then get help from the municipality in the implementation of their activity and possibly a financial contribution.

  • Heerlen traffic safety plan adopted

    Improving livability in neighborhoods in the city is top priority this college term. As part of this, the College of Mayor and Aldermen has adopted the Traffic Safety Plan. This year alone, 2.5 million euros will be invested in it.

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