2023-11-28 17:50:38
By 2050 at the latest, all buildings in Brussels must have a C+ PEB. However, we are far from it: the city has a good number of old buildings that are poorly or poorly insulated. The effort required will therefore be significant and many owners feel lost in the face of the mountain of steps to be taken. Why not get together with neighbors and take a joint approach? This is the aim of a pilot project, which started in the Roue district of Anderlecht.
The garden city of La Roue has some 600 houses: 200 belong to the Anderlecht social housing company, but 400 are in the hands of private owners. The neighborhood was urbanized a good century ago. And it really needs a renovation. Rather than doing it in a dispersed order, resident owners decided to come together to apply for a joint permit.
“The idea came to usexplains Eva Röben, who is part of the group, because we each started individually. But finding a contractor, taking the necessary steps, submitting requests for permits and bonuses, it was very complicated. We then said to ourselves that, by doing it together, we would benefit from common feedback. And that would avoid decisions like we sometimes see, where what is permitted for one is prohibited for the other.“
Other advantages: together, the owners can interest contractors who would not travel for an individual project. And save on common costs.
The first request for a grouped permit only concerns 8 houses. But the project is facing delays. Because the administration is lost in the face of a grouped request? Tania Vandamme, another linchpin of the project: “No, it’s just that the town is overwhelmed. The group permit application procedure exists. But it is rarely used.”
The collective believes that their concept can be transposed, at least in part, throughout the city. While waiting for the procedures to be simplified, the idea of pooling procedures could come to the aid of quite a few small owners in Brussels.
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