2023-11-29 18:38:00
Yet another episode in the endless Laeken saga of the Annie Cordy fresco and the future urban agricultural greenhouse. We learn that a new permit has just been granted to carry out this project supported by the City of Brussels and Beliris. On the side of Secretary of State Ans Persoons (Vooruit), we applaud the progress. “We are delighted that the file is moving forward. The neighborhood needs this project, which creates greenery.”
As a reminder, the authorities intend to create an “urban agricultural greenhouse” a stone’s throw from the old Laeken station and the Notre-Dame church. A project which also involves the redevelopment of the area, the creation of a cycle path on the other side of the rails (rue Stéphanie). In return, the Annie Cordy fresco, painted on an old building, will have to be destroyed.
Dramatic twist in Laeken, the permit for the greenhouse and the demolition of the Annie Cordy fresco withdrawn following an appeal from local residents
New permit therefore… but also new recourse. Authors of previous successful appeals, the Friends of the Parvis inform us that they are attacking the project again before the Council of State, with a citizen’s appeal and a lawyer’s appeal. “Here we go again. We will continue our fight”, informs us Cédric Dartois, of the association of local residents strongly attached to the fresco painted for the singer’s 90th birthday. In addition to the painting, the Friends denounce the volume considered disproportionate of the greenhouse, the nuisance of the future footbridge along the rails on rue Stéphanie
Small feedbacks. A permit was granted in April 2022. But at the beginning of this year 2023, the permit obtained was withdrawn following the prosecution of the Laekenois. New documents having been added to the file, a request was reintroduced and finally validated. A final decision which, according to the Laekenois, was not proactively communicated by the authorities. “We had to file a complaint to have posters put up.”
If the permit is granted, no date has yet been defined to start the work. “No date is yet known, the work specifications are currently being drafted,” Beliris informs us.
Laeken: two appeals against the urban greenhouse and footbridge project, and the destruction of the Annie Cordy fresco
A Chambon passage being renovated
Also new this fall is the Passage Chambon, a small classified and dilapidated railway crossing that the Friends of the Parvis would like to see renovated and used as a cycle route in place of a new footbridge to be built on rue Stéphanie.
Residents of Annie Cordy Park do not want the urban greenhouse: “It’s people we need, not bricks and windows”
Infrabel has in fact submitted a request to study two boxes “with a view to preparing a restoration file”. “It’s clearly a victory,” rejoices Cédric Dartois, who has long campaigned for its refurbishment. “But what’s crazy is that they are keeping this bike path project on Stéphanie Street, even though the passage will be renovated and can be used for pedestrians and cyclists.”
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