Scheveningen fish vendors fear ULEZ: can't get their herring out of Scheveningen
Is the net-zero strategy for real transition of energy supply, or car sales ?
In a breakthrough action plan, all fossil fueled cars are to be banned in the city center and in the Scheveningen coastal zone.
Ultra-low Emission Zones or No Emission Zones for cars are introduced all around the western world. However, in The Hague data is available, to point out that it might be the wrong answer to fight air pollution.
This is why: when a resident sees a delivery van parking in front of the house from their kitchen window, they see through a single- non-insulated glass window a lot more often than elsewhere in The Hague.
Of all the neighbourhoods with the most poorly insulated homes in the royal city, five are located within the area that will soon be forbidden for. fossil-powered transport. Parcel delivery, retail logistics and even the famous wagons for selling fresh herring and other Scheveningen fresh seafood on food markets all around the Netherlands.
There’s not enough electricity available on the grid.. And it’s very costly for companies. They will have to comply in 2025, according to the planning.
It won’t help the environment half as much however, as simply insulating housing.
Of all houses in The Hague, a quarter or even more than a third (the data on this differ) have a very poor energy rating: E, F or G. Energy label E means that residents use at least one and a half times more natural gas to heat their home than an average household. With G, the house is so poorly insulated that simply fitting draught strips will reduce the gas bill considerably.
In total, there are a hundred thousand houses with this kind of poor labels. Of these, as many as half have the very lowest energy G-label. Just over half of the G-labelled houses are owner-occupied, the rest are rental properties. The new council wants 10k E/F/G living units insulated per year, to be stimulated via subsidies.