Wassenaar (Netherlands) – The inhabitants of Huize Ívicke on Rust en Vreugdlaan (avenue of rest and joy) in Wassenaar have left. The monumental country house, which they returned to meaningful use in July 2018 after years of vacancy, is once again free as a bird. What will happen to the fairy-tale mansion and the surrounding […]
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Wassenaar: Villa Ivicke eviction in 3 months – Let’s use this time well!
Wassenaar (Netherlands) – On Monday, we received the verdict in the interim measure court case against the notorious real estate speculator and owner of Ivicke, Ronnie van de Putte aka the Slum Lord, and the municipality of Wassenaar. The judge denied our request to postpone our eviction until we’ve had a chance to appeal against […]
Wassenaar: Possible Ivicke Eviction Within Two Weeks
Update on the hearing of the Provisional Ruling – 15 February 2022 Wassenaar (Netherlands) – Today, there was a hearing at the Raad van State in The Hague, which will decide the future of Huize Ivicke. The villa in Wassenaar that has been squatted for three and a half years is threatened with eviction because […]
Wassenaar: Bats at Ivicke
Potential Roost Destroyed And Building In Danger After Municipality Of Wassenaar Ignores Directive To Stop All Works. The municipality of Wassenaar removed Ivicke’s gutter despite an Omgevingsdienst Zuid-Holland directive to stop all works on the building immediately due to the suspected presence of bats. The removal of the gutter also did not accord with the […]
Wassenaar: Villa Ivicke, news from the last six months
Zoning plan, construction works, court proceedings. A lot has happened in the past six months. In April, the owner started a lawsuit to evict us. And in May, the municipality of Wassenaar imposed an administrative order on both the owner Ronnie van de Putte and us as residents. With this administrative order, the municipality wants […]
Wassenaar: The Danger of Occupied Ivicke
Why does the municipality of Wassenaar consider our residency at Ivicke to be a “danger”? And what exactly are we endangering? Here, I will give these questions some space, that necessarily lead us back in time. In January 2019, Ivicke’s owner requested the municipality to enforce the bestemmingsplan (zoning plan), which was rejected a few […]
Wassenaar: Ivicke’s Zoning Plan, a Monumental Fuck Up
Enforcement of a zoning plan would suggest there is a plan. There isn’t. The municipality of Wassenaar has decided to pursue our eviction from Huize Ivicke on the basis of the building’s zoning plan which designates its function as an office, not a residence. Their reasoning for the decision appears to be that ‘Kantoor Ivicke’ […]
Wassenaar: Ivicke Sales Seizure, First Step To Expropriation?
The municipality of Wassenaar is going to court to annul the recent sales of Ivicke by the owner, Ronnie van de Putte, to two of his newly-established companies. Van de Putte is currently subject to an administrative order from the municipality of Wassenaar to carry out restoration works on Ivicke by July 20. Otherwise, the […]
Wassenaar: Report on Ivicke’s ‘Emergency Repairs’
In January, following the court ruling stating that the owner must comply with the municipality’s order to carry out emergency repairs, a contractor began the works on Ivicke. At the request of members of two monument protection organisations, we sent a report (below) to the municipality, with details about how the repairs were carried out. […]
Wassenaar: Huize Ivicke, Restoration Through Expropriation
Instead of unconditionally gifting half a million euros of public money to Van de Putte’s property portfolio, Ivicke must be expropriated before it can be restored. Only then is its future secure. The province of South-Holland pledged to pay 500,000 euros for Huize Ivicke’s restoration if the municipality of Wassenaar is unable to recover the […]
Wassenaar: Huize Ivicke, One Night With The VVD
Late last year, VVD Wassenaar organized a ‘political cafe’ on the topic of Ivicke and squatting. The event, with little sense of irony, was called ‘Kraken of Actie?’ In three words, VVD Wassenaar disregarded one and a half years of direct action to reverse the decline of a national monument, whilst presenting their party, who […]
Wassenaar: Huize Ivicke’s Nomination for 7 Most Endangered
In the summer of 2019, we were approached to help with the nomination process to have Huize Ivicke shortlisted as one of the 7 Most Endangered heritage sites in Europe under a program run by Europa Nostra. As the current occupants, we offered our perspective as part of the application. A photographer also came round […]
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