Meerhoven is a city quarter in the

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city of

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Vinex-location Vinex (''"Vierde Nota Ruimtelijke Ordening Extra"''; ''Fourth Memorandum on Extra Spacial Planning'') is a policy briefing note of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (''Ministry of VROM'') that was released in 19 ...

, which has been under development since 1997. The development of Meerhoven was started to deal with the shortage of housing in Eindhoven in the 1990s (and it was also part of the general Vinex urban development projects started around that time). In order to facilitate growth of the city, a significant rezoning of the southeast of the province of

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was undertaken, in which part of the territory of the town of

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was added to Eindhoven. Also, the local airport Welschap was moved west and renamed

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. The Meerhoven project was then started to develop the now vacated and available land. A large tract of the Meerhoven area was formerly the PIROC terrain (''Pantser Infanterie RijOpleidingsCentrum'', English ''Armored Infantry Drivers Training Center''). Meerhoven is located on the northwestern part of Eindhoven (north of the current territory of Veldhoven) and spans the Eindhoven territory west of the

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. The quarter is part of the

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. As of 1 January 2010 the quarter houses 8640 people, which is expected to grow to 12.000 upon completion of the entire development project. The term "Meerhoven" is often used to refer to the residential parts of the quarter, i.e., the

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Bosrijk, Grasrijk, Meerrijk, Waterrijk en Zandrijk. However, Meerhoven also includes the industrial areas Flight en Park Forum, ''Nimbus'', ''Land Forum'' and ''Trade Forum'', as well as the land of

. Moreover, the area known as BeA2, the Meerbos and the Golfclub Welschap are part of Meerhoven. Before the actual building started, a lot of time was spent thoroughly searching the grounds for leftover explosives from

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, which are found in the area regularly.

External links

Municipal information on Meerhoven

Meerhoven website

Statistics website of Eindhoven
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