Overview
- Wethouder Arjen Kapteijns told the council Thursday that residents who have not been able to renew will not be fined for now, pledging lenient enforcement.
- The city granted two-month extensions for Centrum, Schilderswijk and Scheveningen, which had March 1 deadlines, and for Archipel‑Zorgvliet, Benoordenhout, Bezuidenhout and Vogelwijk, which faced April 1 deadlines.
- All residents must file new applications under an address‑based system intended to clean up records and make permit allocation fairer.
- The municipality reports more than 4,000 emails and hundreds of calls and says about 44,000 new permits have been issued, while residents report outages, hours‑long waits and unresolved help requests.
- The city is expanding its contact center and neighborhood help points and has deployed text-message boards, as CDA and VVD push an urgent debate seeking accountability and clear enforcement assurances.