Organise a firework-free neighbourhood

This year again residents can decide together to not light any fireworks in their neighbourhood over New Year’s. You can hang up signs to show that it is a firework-free zone. You can request these signs from the municipality until 27 December 2024.

Are you a resident and would you like to organise a firework-free neighbourhood over New Year’s? Below you will find tips for organising this:

1. Make clear rules with your neighbours on lighting fireworks and firecrackers in and around a street, square or playground or an area close to a park.
2. Clearly show the boundaries of the firework-free zone. Are there residents who do not want to take part? Keep this in mind.
3. Make sure that all residents in the firework-free zone are in agreement with the rules. This is key to making the initiative a success.
4. Decide with each other where in your neighbourhood it is permitted to light fireworks.
5. Contact your district police officer to inform them about what you agreed upon.
6. You can show that your neighbourhood is a firework-free zone by hanging up a special sign. You can request a sign for a firework-free zone from the municipality until 27 December 2024. You can collect these signs as of 26 December 2024 at a nearby city district office. Hang up the signs along the boundaries of the firework-free zone before 31 December 2024.
7. Make sure that the signs have been removed by 3 January 2025 and that the neighbourhood is clean and tidy.

The municipality and police will not enforce the rules in these areas. The municipality will rely on the residents themselves to enforce the rules.

Apply

Request the signs for your firework-free zone.

Pick up the signs

Have you applied? The city district office will let you know when you can pick up the signs for a firework-free neighbourhood.

Also see New Year 2024-2025