Fewer Dutch buy fireworks, reports increased nuisance – AD.nl

Fewer Dutch buy fireworks, reports increased nuisance – AD.nl

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25-12-14 – 09:43 © anp.

Fewer people stabbing still fireworks around old and new. Bought in 2011, 29 percent of the Dutch fireworks, now this share has fallen to about 21 percent. Total spending this year will remain the same because the buyers spend an average of slightly more than last year, according to a survey by Q & amp; A Research & amp; Consultancy.

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According to the researchers, there is less and less need for stabbing off fireworks and gives the consumer the money on something rather different. But about a quarter (26 percent) of the Dutch find it too dangerous. Almost half of the Dutch indicate that they are now more afraid of fireworks than before and this concerns not only the elderly.

Fireworks Ban
Slightly more than half the Dutch now sees what a fireworks ban. Last year, the proportion was still 45 percent. The alternative that municipalities have a fireworks show for their account is welcomed by almost two-thirds of respondents. Old and new at all without fireworks for the majority still little worth.

Fireworks enthusiasts buy their firecrackers and decorative fireworks usually in a fireworks specialist (52 percent) and less often in a garden

center, a bike shop or hardware store. The Internet appears to have begun on a small rise. Where the share was stable for years at around 6 percent this year shows 11 percent of buyers to do this over the internet.

Illegal fireworks
The study shows further that buys about 11 percent of the Dutch sometimes illegal fireworks. Confidence in illegal fireworks is therefore low. Only 12 percent of respondents said they had confidence in illegal fireworks. The fireworks were investigating nearly 1,900 Dutch consumers with.

The fireworks industry estimates that approximately 65 million of firework is launched.

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Notifications nuisance doubled
The FIU fireworks nuisance are up early this morning more than 2200 messages. The hotline, on site vuurwerkoverlast.nl, opened yesterday and when the counter stood at the end of the day more than a thousand.

It is the third year in a row that citizens can express their complaints to the hotline , an initiative of twenty municipal and provincial Green Left fractions. Last year there were nearly 90,000 complaints.

Most of the complaints about very heavy fireworks. Many reports come from the Randstad, but also in the east and in Limburg people experience discomfort.

The messages on vuurwerkoverlast.nl want to bring the initiators of the scale of the problem identified. The complaints come in a report in early 2015 to the House and fifteen mayors offered.

Fireworks Free Zones
This year, approximately 40 municipalities in their territory one or set multiple fireworks free zones. Besides Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam, for example, do Amstelveen, Diemen, Den Helder, Vlaardingen, Maassluis and Geldermalsen that. Off fireworks at predetermined locations in those municipalities punishable. The ban applies mainly in areas around shopping centers, nursing homes, playgrounds, historic buildings and sites where reside many animals.

Municipalities like Utrecht, Groningen, Eindhoven, Tilburg and Almere impose fireworks ban. A number of municipalities have banned the coming new year still under consideration. The municipality of Hilversum was recently reprimanded by the judge. He put a line through the fireworks ban was set by the College of Mayor and Aldermen of the city center.

See the map below which municipalities have set up a fireworks free zone. The number “1″ means that there are one or more areas have been designated. See the map here in a larger format.