Part of our Rinkeby wood is being dug up during the summer holidays to make space for a new 'snow depot' - where the snow that is cleared from the roads in the winter is dealt with. The previous snow depot was on a piece of land that has been sold, somewhat controversially, to Good to Great Tennis Academy, who will build an elite tennis academy - Catella Arena - on the site (see our recent post about the arena here).
The 5000 square metre site (about the size of a football pitch) is not in the area of the woods that is a Nature Reserve. It is behind the recycling area off Edsbergsvägen where the car park for Danderyds Golfklubb is. Although the neighbourhood needs and wants the depot, people living around the site received no warning that it was coming and have criticised the council for not giving any notice.
The nature association, Naturskyddsföreningen, was also not pleased that no environmental study was conducted first. The main concern for them is that when snow is dumped, oil from the road and bits of tarmac naturally come too and that would like to see what will happen to that when the snow melts.
The site will open in the autumn (2016) and the kommun plans to evaluate the environmental impact before the first snow comes.
The 5000 square metre site (about the size of a football pitch) is not in the area of the woods that is a Nature Reserve. It is behind the recycling area off Edsbergsvägen where the car park for Danderyds Golfklubb is. Although the neighbourhood needs and wants the depot, people living around the site received no warning that it was coming and have criticised the council for not giving any notice.
The nature association, Naturskyddsföreningen, was also not pleased that no environmental study was conducted first. The main concern for them is that when snow is dumped, oil from the road and bits of tarmac naturally come too and that would like to see what will happen to that when the snow melts.
The site will open in the autumn (2016) and the kommun plans to evaluate the environmental impact before the first snow comes.
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