The Municipality of Heerlen has a new Land and Property Policy. Instead of dealing passively with land, Heerlen now takes an active approach that helps with housing development, sustainability and equal opportunities. The new policy enables better development of the city with attention to livable neighborhoods, sustainability and nature. The municipality chooses the best role for each situation: sometimes the municipality develops itself, sometimes it helps other parties to achieve important goals. The city council has yet to approve the proposal.
Under the title "Everyone a Home," the Parkstad municipalities and their collaborative partners in the fields of housing, welfare and Health are embarking onaan de slag met de Regional Future Vision for Housing, Welfare and Health. This vision, which focuses on the principles of a "fair share" and inclusive neighborhoods, is the basis for a joint approach to the major social challenges of the coming years.
The vasteloavend in Heerlen gets a fresh and contemporary twist! Richtig Heële will from now on organize the best carnival activities in Heerlen center. The foundation takes over the baton from deTENT and from this season expands to Heerlerheide and Hoensbroek under the names Richtig Heëlehei and Richtig Gebrook.
The Municipality of Heerlen, Maastricht University and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences have the desire to expand and further strengthen Heerlen as an educational city, thus contributing to increasing the broad prosperity of Heerlen and its immediate surroundings.
On Wednesday, February 19, Food Bank Limburg-Zuid opened its brand new store at Passartweg 150 in Heerlen. Here clients do not receive traditional food packages, but can do their own shopping, tailored to their own needs.
The council is going out into neighborhoods this month and next to ask residents where they see opportunities for housing development. We have also opened an email address for ideas. At woningbouw@heerlen.nl, people can submit suggestions for possible development sites in their neighborhoods directly. We have already received dozens of responses.
The municipality has received a €1,500,000 grant from the state to improve the bicycle route between Heerlen-North and the business parks to the south. Among other things, we are constructing two bicycle bridges over the traffic circle at Avantis/Trilandis.
On Friday, Jan. 31, we highlighted 6 Exceptional Heerleners. One of the Bijzondere Heerlenaren was already put in the limelight on January 17. We see these Bijzondere Heerlenaren as ambassadors of the municipality of Heerlen through their efforts, special achievement or positive activities in the past year. The mayor personally thanked these special residents by surprising them with a beautiful bouquet of flowers, an engraved ballpoint pen, the 'Bijzondere Heerlenaar' pin and a certificate. They are a source of inspiration and an example for Heerlen in 2025.
Alderman Marco Peters of Management and Maintenance and director of Weller Barry Braeken, together with a resident, gave the go-ahead for the construction of a garden at senior citizens' complex De Eik. The greening is part of the greening in Eikenderveld. A unique collaboration between municipality and housing corporation with the same goal for both organizations.
