azc Holten (Pannenweg)
The asylum centre on the Pannenweg near Holten, set up at the former De Lindenberg holiday park in the Borkeld and housing around 225 status holders, drew organised local opposition. About fifty residents formed the foundation Leefbaar Borkeld in September 2024 and challenged the permit in court, losing both an urgent injunction and a later substantive case. The municipality, which bought the park and ran the process with a residents' group, risk assessments and a security fund, has been cited as an example of siting a centre in the Bible Belt without the large protests seen elsewhere.
Occupancy
218
people (Aug 2025)
Per night
€80
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€6.4m
estimated
Background
The site sits at Pannenweg, Holten. It is run by the COA (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers), the Dutch government’s asylum-reception agency. For what the azc / noodopvang categories mean and how Dutch reception spending breaks down, open the cost panel on the interactive map with the Netherlands selected in Settings.
In the news
Mar 2026
AZC in the Bible Belt: how Rijssen-Holten pulled it off
The De Lindenberg holiday park near Holten was converted to house about 225 status holders; despite court challenges by the Leefbaar Borkeld foundation, the municipality's resident consultation, risk assessments and security fund helped the site open without large-scale protests.
Reformatorisch Dagblad · source
Compiled from public Dutch news reports (each item links to its source). Where a municipality runs more than one reception location, attribution to this specific address reflects the cited report and may be approximate — always check the linked source.
Timeline
Sep 2024
Opponents form Leefbaar Borkeld, go to court
Around fifty residents set up the foundation Leefbaar Borkeld and challenged the centre, but lost both an interim injunction and a substantive case on the permit.
Cost
Dutch asylum reception is funded by central government through the COA. At an illustrative benchmark of about €80 per person per night for a regular centre, the 218 people recorded here on 13 August 2025 imply roughly €6.4m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — emergency reception typically runs around three times the cost of a regular centre.
Sources
COA / Rijksoverheid (Kamerstuk, 5 Sep 2025) · 2025-08-13. View source
Occupancy is the COA register snapshot of 13 August 2025 and may have changed since. Coordinates were geocoded from the published street address via the official PDOK Locatieserver.