Vianen Blue Deal

Within the framework of the New Urban Developments and Restructuring Delta Programme (The Netherlands Climate-Resilient by 2050), the municipality of Vianen has signed the Blue Deal Climate-Resilient City of Vianen declaration of intent. Co-signatories were the Water Tower Council, the Rivierenland district water board, SVP Architecture, and Haver Droeze urban development consultants. Together, the parties involved are committed to the development of a climate-proof and water-resilient Vianen. Their points of focus are adaptation, linkage, and smart ways to “create work with work” in existing urban areas and new developments. This involves concrete forms of collaboration between public and private parties, in which the business community and residents are encouraged to invest and participate in devising solutions to the climate and water taskings.

In the construction plans for the new “Hoef en Haag” village, the stakeholders are already tying in with the various climate taskings in the area. In addition to a climate-resilience design of the public space, measures are being developed to enhance climate-awareness among the future residents of the village. By actively contacting the new residents, the stakeholders hope to discourage home owners from paving their gardens and rather opting for planting vegetation.

Vianen is using the experience gained in the Hoef en Haag project in various ways, for example, in the climate-proof renovation of the “De Hagen” business park in Vianen. Paving dominates this estate, and the sewer system does not work properly. As a result, the area is prone to pluvial flooding. The municipality manages 15% of the estate; the remaining 85% are owned by various companies. Ergo, in order to tackle the taskings facing this area, it is important for the companies to wake up to the necessity of investments of their own into measures pertaining to the area. The Vianen Blue Deal collaboration needs to make entrepreneurs aware of the taskings at issue in the area (analysis), in order for them to want to contribute to resolving such taskings. To this end, the collaborative is actively entering into dialogue with the entrepreneurs. Antoinette van Heijningen, co-founder of the Water Tower Council, considers mapping out the companies prone to pluvial flooding a good way to raise awareness.

Contact person

Hendrika Jager
Rivierenland district water board
06 - 23 11 27 70
h.jager@wsrl.nl