A ruling by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights on the policy of the municipality Gouda on the number of caravan pitches in Gouda. The number of seventy caravan sites will not be expanded. An interest group complains about discrimination because there are insufficient pitches and people cannot build up waiting times. The Institute states that there is no discrimination on the basis of race. The municipality also offers five sales pitches and keeps the number of pitches the same. The draw can be unfair between caravan residents themselves, but that does not constitute discrimination.
A second complaint on which the College is making a decision today concerns a complaint from a caravan residents association Gouda against the Minister of the Interior who, in October 2006 released a report for municipalities “Working on caravan locations“. This report contains all kinds of policy variants for caravan locations. The Board states that two of these variants are discriminatory and that they are otherwise not competent to judge the Ministry. In the variants that are discriminatory, is it about the “zero option“, in which housing in caravans disappears and the variant “phase-out policy“. In these two options, the core of the trailer culture is affected and results in racial discrimination.

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