{"id":145542,"date":"2022-10-26T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=145542"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:28","slug":"kralingen-residents-complained-about-students-600-times-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/10\/26\/kralingen-residents-complained-about-students-600-times-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kralingen residents complained about students 600 times last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local residents in Kralingen have made nearly 600 reports about student nuisance this year. The police have received 355 reports since January. An additional 249 reports were filed with the municipality. \u201cFiling nuisance reports and objecting to room permits is really not our hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Rosa Jelsma from RSC\/RVSV, Maud Visser from Laurentius, district councilor and EUR student Friso van Gruijthuijsen and public administration student Ramon Labrijn.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cWe are fully aware that the members of our association cause nuisance from time to time,\u201d says Rosa Jelsma, president of student association RSC\/RVSV, on stage at the Pro Rege auditorium. More than a hundred local residents listened in during the annual residents\u2019 meeting in Kralingen.<\/p>\n

Her board is working hard to address this, she explained. Many of the association\u2019s members live in student houses in Kralingen. \u201cWe tell our first-year members right from the start that they are located in a residential area. We emphasise this all year long, through emails and other communication channels. We walk around the neighbourhood ourselves on busy evenings, first and foremost for our students\u2019 safety, but also so that we can limit nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Traffic light model<\/h2>

The municipality also informed residents about its approach to student nuisance in the neighbourhood. Those in attendance included alderman Vincent Karremans and safety director for residential nuisance Rob Keereweer. They gave an update on the traffic light model. Two houses are currently on \u2018red\u2019. In the worst cases, the mayor intervenes and fines are imposed on the residents and the owner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey receive behavioural instructions which set out what they absolutely should not do,\u201d Keereweer says. \u201cIf they continue committing violations, the room permit can be revoked.\u201d Thus far, no fines have been imposed and no permits have been revoked.<\/p>\n\n\t

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\n\t\t\u2018Last year, emotions were running high because residents felt that the municipality wasn\u2019t listening to them.\u2019\n\t<\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t\t
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Ongoing nuisance<\/h2>

It is difficult to say whether the situation in Kralingen has improved compared to last year, says Arthur ten Have, president of residents\u2019 initiative STOK. \u201cThe measures have only been in place since February, so we can\u2019t yet conclude whether they really work.\u201d However, the atmosphere this year is calmer than it was at last year\u2019s meeting. \u201cEmotions were running high at the time because residents felt that the municipality wasn\u2019t listening to them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean the problems have been solved. In her speech, resident Sanneke van Hassel listed a number of examples, especially from Kralingen West \u2013 the neighbourhood with the most student room rentals in Rotterdam, according to the municipality. \u201cI know residents who have spent dozens of nights writing objections against room permits and then attending hearings,\u201d she says. \u201cFiling nuisance reports and objecting to room permits is really not our hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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