Two weeks after buying land to build a large-scale greenhouse farm, an access road important to the grower disappeared. It is the reason for the Dutch grower, who wants to grow in stages, to claim more than 6.5 tonnes of compensation from the municipality.
Two of the three growth steps the strawberry grower has already taken. The company wants to see money because it says it now has to build an (additional) access road itself. Moreover, the construction of that road means that this will leave less land on the plot for the planned business activities. It emerged during the recent court case that the strawberry grower, who likes to work with a 'clean' and 'dirty' road, wanted to use the second road mainly in emergencies. For example, access would be needed in case of disease in part of the greenhouses.
The grower would like to optimize the layout of the greenhouse complex. Phase three of the complex's construction has not yet been carried out. The judge pointed out that "so far there are sufficient" possibilities to reach the complex without a second access road.
The municipality already rejected a grower's request for financial compensation a few years back. An appeal against that decision was also declared unfounded by the municipality.
The court also declared the grower's appeal against the Horst aan de Maas municipality's decision to withdraw a road from public access for the above reasons unfounded, according to the 16 August ruling. The ruling of the Limburg District Court was published on 13 September.