Massive pressure against giant summer houses at town meeting: 'There is something rotten about it'

Questions and opinions flew at the town hall meeting in the canteen of the Ebeltoft city hall on Monday evening to such an extent that the meeting ran overtime.

"We were really many who put massive pressure on the politicians in the municipality," says Nanna Aude.

She lives in the village of Dråby, which lies on the only road out to Dråby Strand.

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Here, politicians in Syddjurs Municipality are considering approving a new holiday home area with 108 holiday home plots, each of which can be built on with a total of 230 square meters.

On Monday evening, 150 people showed up 'to be equipped to write consultation responses,' which the municipality's politicians and staff repeatedly emphasized was the purpose of the meeting.

Nanna Aude lives with her family in Dråby near Ebeltoft. They have a cargo bike as their 'second car.'

And for Nanna Aude, it was reassuring to meet so many others who are also concerned about what the plans will mean for the local area.

"As a politician, you would have to be truly ignorant or arrogant to proceed with the plans as they are now."

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No 'showstoppers'.

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Nanna Aude has lived in Dråby for nine years with her family and has now started considering whether they should move, because she is worried that traffic through the village will become too dangerous, especially for her three children under ten.

But after the meeting, she is also in good spirits regarding that matter.

It turns out that the municipality has not investigated what the new holiday home area will mean for traffic through Dråby.

"Even though I am shocked that they haven't addressed the traffic at all, it also comforts me a little."

"Because I am quite sure that if they do that analysis, it will show that it cannot hold up."

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> I haven't heard anything at the town hall meeting that is a showstopper. Everything

> that came up is something that can be worked with.

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The politicians from the municipality's Business and Planning Committee also showed up. Here, it was the chairman who fielded the many questions. The other four members were there to listen.

And even though the committee's vice-chairman, Social Democrat Camilla Rønde, acknowledges the challenge regarding the lack of sewage infrastructure and consideration of traffic, she also left the meeting with a light heart.

"I'm not that worried. I haven't heard anything at the town hall meeting that is a showstopper. Everything that came up is something that can be worked with."

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Mystery about landowner

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In addition to concerns about traffic and sewage infrastructure for the area, the room was also interested in who owns the land to be built on.

A woman in the front row tried to explain why it is important for her to know:

"I could have a suspicion that it is Skanlux (construction company, ed.) buying it all up, which is known for building large holiday homes. And that certainly doesn't make the plan any better."

"There is something rotten about this, to put it bluntly," said the questioner.

A great many members of the Syddjurs Municipality council showed up for the town hall meeting about the future of Dråby Strand. (Photo: © Private photo, DR East Jutland)

In a statement to DR, Skanlux denies being involved in the project at Dråby Strand.

"But we are working on building eight holiday homes at Øer, south of Ebeltoft," says Mads Rohde, project development manager at Skanlux.

They have a maximum size of 250 square meters each, he states.

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The citizens did not succeed in wringing an answer out of the municipality's representatives at Monday's town hall meeting.

And it is not relevant to know, says the vice-chairman of the planning committee, Camilla Rønde.

"It is not our responsibility to know who the developer is. We have to create a local plan that can work for everyone in the future, regardless of who intends to use it."

Nanna Aude thinks that is a strange argument.

"It is important for us citizens to know who it is, so we can see the evidence and form an impression of what type of houses might be built there. It is important to be able to write a proper consultation response."

Syddjurs Municipality's mailbox is open for incoming consultation responses until December 16.

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