Submit an objection

If you disagree with a decision reached by the council, or if you have a personal interest in the decision, you can object. You must object within 6 weeks of the decision being sent.

What you need to do

Before you submit an objection, you can contact the council to find out whether submitting an objection is the best thing to do. You can talk through this with a council employee. If you wish to object, submit an objection. Do this digitally using DigiD or eHerkenning or submit by mail.

What can you object to?

Submit the objection to the administrative body that made the decision, for example, the council, the mayor or the council’s executive board.

Object to other decisions

  • Tax Partnership for West-Brabant (Dutch)
    For decisions about waste fees, betterment levy, immovable property and immovable property tax, sufferance tax, sewerage levy or waiver, submit an objection to the Tax Partnership for West-Brabant, Belastingsamenwerking West-Brabant (Dutch).
     
  • Social Domain
    When a decision has been reached about work and income (Participation Act - Participatiewet), debt counselling or the Social Support Act (Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning- Wmo), submit an objection to the Social Domain.
     
  • Administrative fine (Dutch)
    If you do not agree with a fine for nuisance in a public area, you can object to an administrative fine (Dutch).
     
  • Submit your views on a licence or permit application 
    If you wish to comment on a decision that the council still has to reach, you can sometimes submit your views.
     
  • Submit your views on a spatial plan
    If you wish to comment on a decision that the council still has to reach, you can sometimes submit your views.

Submit an objection online

Submit an objection if you want to object to a decision to grant or refuse an environmental permit under the Environmental Law (General Provisions) Act (Wet algemene bepalingen omgevingsrecht (Wabo)), for example, for construction or demolition projects or felling trees. Or if you wish to object to a decision under the General Municipal Regulation (APV) Breda, the General Regulation on Subsidies Breda (Algemene subsidieverordening Breda ) or the Parking Regulation (Parkeerverordening).

Submit

Submit an objection by mail

Send a letter to the Municipality, containing the following information:

  • your name and address
  • the date of writing the objection
  • the decision you are objecting to (we recommend enclosing a copy of the decision)
  • the reason for your objection
  • your signature

Include your telephone number in your objection and we can contact you to discuss how the objection can be dealt with (the informal approach).

What happens to your objection?

You may be invited to a hearing of the Advisory Board for objections. This Advisory Board is not part of the council, but advises the administrative body that must reach a decision about your objection.

You will then receive the council’s decision about your objection. This decision is usually reached within 12 weeks after the day on which the period of time for submitting the objection ends. The council can extend this period of time once only by a maximum of 6 weeks. You will then be informed of this in writing.

Advisory Board Agenda for the hearing of objections

Submitting an appeal

If you don't agree with the decision about your objection - within 6 weeks of the decision about your objection - you can appeal to the district court of Zeeland-West-Brabant. A court fee is generally payable for lodging an appeal. Send your appeal to:

Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant
Sector Bestuursrecht
Postbus 90006
4800 PA Breda

Digital appeal

You can also lodge an appeal with the court digitally. 

Submit a preliminary injunction

If you do not want the decision to take effect immediately, you can apply for a preliminary injunction from the Preliminary Injunction Court in the Administrative Law section of the Zeeland-West-Brabant district court. A court fee is generally payable for the submission of an application for a preliminary injunction. Send your application for a preliminary injunction to:

Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant
Sector Bestuursrecht
Postbus 90006
4800 PA Breda

Digital application 

You can also apply digitally to the court for a preliminary injunction.