Municipality of Hoorn: Opportunities for the Kersenboogerd, areas 1, 2 and 6

We have granted the municipality of Hoorn €100,000 subsidy for the climate-proof redevelopment of the center area of the Kersenboogerd. This is one of six projects to which HHNK has granted a subsidy from the KAN scheme.

Through this Klimaat Actief Noorderkwartier grant regulation, municipalities can receive subsidies for projects that make the living environment more climate-proof, up to 30% of the project costs. The scheme is intended to accelerate the implementation of these projects. On August 31, 2023 high water board Klazien Hartog symbolically handed over this amount to Alderman Karin Hakhoff of the municipality of Hoorn.

More beautiful, safer and future-proof

Alderman Karin Hakhoff: "Together with residents we are making the downtown area of the Kersenboogerd more beautiful, safer and future-proof. We are doing this through the Opportunities for the Kersenboogerd program. I am very happy that, partly due to this subsidy, we can realize climate-proof neighborhoods there."

Less pavement and more greenery

The grant is for climate adaptive measures in the redesign of public space in the neighborhood Patio, Pergola, Arbor, neighborhood Groove, Brass, Style and neighborhood Zaanweg, Thrush, Magpie, Palisade. Here measures are applied to reduce water flooding.

With less paving of bricks and tiles, there is more room for plants and shrubs. Thus, rainwater is better captured. Planted embankments, so-called wadis, also provide this. These store and purify rainwater, after which the water infiltrates into the subsoil. And the roads are laid out in a V-shape. This keeps the rainwater on the street longer instead of draining directly into the sewer system.

Neighborhood by neighborhood

Gemeente Hoorn is tackling the redesign of the public space in the center area of the Kersenboogerd neighborhood on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis. Residents are already involved in the sketch design. The aim is to start work in Patio, Pergola and Prieel in the second half of 2024.