Vinex-location

Vinex ("Vierde Nota Ruimtelijke Ordening Extra"; Fourth Memorandum on Extra Spatial Planning) is a policy briefing note of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (Ministry of VROM) that was released in 1991.

[1] The policy designated large outer city areas for massive new housing development.

To accommodate the increasing population of the Netherlands the Ministry of VROM determined a number of main points in the Vinex-document for the construction of new housing districts starting in 1993.

New districts had to be placed near existing town centers and had to contribute to the following aims: The Vinex-locations also had to diminish the unfair pricing of housing.

The authorities tried to solve the shortage of affordable housing by luring wealthier households to the more expensive Vinex-locations.