2023-09-17 05:50:09
In this context and as a worthy successor to “Stop Concrete” planthe SDT has a triple objective: “The fight once morest urban sprawl, maximum land preservation and efficient and coherent use of land through urbanization“. In other words: stop the increasing artificialization of land, which degrades biodiversity and the environment.
One of the key notions of this diagram is that of “centralities“that is to say all “THE cities, townss, villages already urbanized and equipped with roads, public transport, services and others – within which new construction must take place in order to limit urban sprawl“, explains Julien Charlier, geographer at the Iweps Territorial Development Observatory.
In the SDT plan, the centralities are supposed to absorb 75% of future urbanization. It will be the municipalities which, through their municipal development plan, will determine “much more precisely which territories they wish to develop and those in which they wish to set foot“, explains Michel Dachelet, general inspector in charge of Territorial Planning within the Public Service of Wallonia (SPW).
Maximum return to city centers.
Willy Borsus, Vice-President of Wallonia and Minister of Territorial Planning
Guest on the Premiere last July, Willy Borsus recalled that, “for a long time, we have urbanized on the outskirts of cities with large commercial establishments which have emptied the city centers and also contributed to the desertification of the center.” From now on, the minister’s message is clear: “Maximum return to city centers“.
To achieve this, it would be necessary to gradually reduce net artificialization (the difference between new artificialized land and new de-artificialized land) until reaching zero square kilometers per year in 2050. Concretely, “dLand will still be artificialized, but a compensation process will be put in place: disused spaces will be returned to nature“, explique Willy Borsus.
The SDT also aims that by the middle of the century, 100% of new land will be developed on already artificialized areas, in particular by rehabilitating the 3,000 hectares of wasteland in Wallonia.
Alongside the SDT, the Walloon government is also working on a reform of the Territorial Development Code (CODT) which sets the main principles in terms of land use planning and town planning and the way in which the SDT will be implemented.
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