2023-09-29 11:03:15
The Brussels parliament gave the green light, Friday, by a large majority, to the proposal for an accelerated procedure for issuing permits for the partial dismantling of the Palais du Midi in the context of the metro project which will connect Albert station to the train station of the North, and later, in Bordet.
In the majority, Isabelle Pauthier (Ecolo) and Marie Nagy (DéFI) abstained, in particular to express their concern about the patrimonial and social impact of the file which took a forced and forced turn.
The debate of the day was broadened by certain speakers to the advisability of the heavy metro option for the future, doubted among the Greens, but unambiguously supported in particular by the MR and by Pascal Smet, the former Minister of Mobility. The metro, said the latter, is a vector of modal transfer for the thousands of commuters who still reach the center of the capital by car every day, in particular, via Grand-Bigard.
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But the vote only related to the draft order “establishing a specific examination procedure for a planning permit application relating to the deconstruction of the interior of the Palais du Midi…”.
According to the office of the Secretary of State for Urban Planning, Ans Persoons (Vooruit), this augurs the issuance of permits for partial dismantling by September 2024 – without taking into account possible appeal deadlines.
The construction of a 120-meter section of tunnel in the heart of the capital, under the Palais du Midi and above the former marshy bed of the Senne has been at a standstill for several months due to technical stability problems. .
The order provides for shortening the theoretical time limit for the procedure from 480 to 290 days – including 120 for the impact study and 170 for the examination of the planning permit application itself.
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