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No five-star hotel in New Street

At the end of February this year, the municipality of Breda well-known That there were plans for a hotel in the former monastery on Nieuwstraat. Since I have been following the developments around the Nieuwstraat for some time, I wrote here a few weeks ago a column about. Then I was particularly concerned about whether the agreements made with the sisters in 1992 had been fulfilled. I was also frustrated by the fact that the municipality would not let me see the contracts from back then.

In recent weeks, through other avenues, I have had those contracts received and I have talked to many people involved. What now appears is that the preliminary sales contract between WSG and HERMON BV has in the meantime already been dissolved. It would involve the sale of Nieuwstraat which WSG sold to HERMON BV for 3.2 million euros. This is a remarkable amount because WSG bought it from the municipality a few years before for 1.6 million. After that, WSG received millions for renovation but actually did nothing more than leave things as they were.

What is also striking is that the municipality had included a clause in the contract with WSG that if WSG had not fulfilled its restoration obligations by 2010 WSG was obliged to offer the Nieuwstraat back to the municipality. Upon inquiry, I also understand that WSG did this at the last minute but the municipality of Breda refused this offer.

At the time of writing I still have some questions open with various agencies (including WSG and municipality). As soon as I have answers to these I will update this post. But the most pressing question of course... What is going to happen to New Street? Are we going to let the squalor continue?

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New Street file: The files (last update 20/04/2012 12:04)

On this page I will upload all the files I receive through the different channels concerning the purchase, sale and resale of the nieuwstraat (the former monastery) in Breda.

last update: April 20, 2012 08:50

Through a third party (not the municipality), I have firmly received a number of documents (documents 1 to 5) these are land registry extracts, deeds of exchange of land and purchase agreements purchase agreements between both the sisters and the municipalities and the municipalities and WSG.

Messages:

Then on the backs of our dead sisters

Documents:

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document 1

Sale deed from the sisters to the Municipality of Breda

Date: October 14, 1992

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document 2

Sale deed from the Municipality of Breda to WSG.

Date: January 2, 2007

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document 3

Exchange and delivery deed Municipality of Breda and Slokker Vastgoed BV

Date: September 24, 2004

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document 4

Cadastral notice object New Street

Date: 10-04-2012

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document 5

Excerpt of Cadastral Map New Street

date: 10-04-2012

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Other documents

In the first column, I also used some documents I had found in old minutes or in the city archives.

Land acquisition confirmation (1992)

Reasons for purchase and conditions (1992)

Confirmation conversion to student housing (1992)

Request credit for conversion to student housing (1993)

Application for additional funds for conversion to student housing (1994)