Hidden rules
These rules don't appear on any sign in Binckhorst, but they shape every demolition, every facade, and every contested rooftop. Each card names what the rule protects, what it erases, and where the archive found the evidence.
A demolition can legally begin four weeks after a one-page notification is filed. No public hearing, no fragment-tracking obligation.
Per-site waste tonnages for Binckhorst demolitions are not published in any planning or environmental register.
The party that delivered Binck City Park is not named in the public planning register for the site.
The actual social-housing share delivered at Binck City Park has not been confirmed against the original planning agreement.
A proposed rule requiring every new Binckhorst facade to contain at least 20% material reclaimed from a demolition within walking distance.
Consultation with residents is procedurally required, but acting on what they say is not. Objections are logged and the project continues unchanged.
Once a plot is cleared, no Dutch law requires the owner to make it publicly accessible. The Vestaweg footprint stood fenced and empty for roughly nine years before Proefpark opened.
At Binck City Park, accountability cycles between the municipality, H2S, Q-Park and developer VORM. Each party redirects to the next; no single actor is contractually responsible for the failures residents report.
Not official rules with named actors — countrywide background conditions that frame everything above.
The national 88% recycling rate counts demolition rubble crushed into road aggregate as 'recycled.' Almost none of it returns as building material.