2023-05-16 10:03:50
But this is not the case. Because in Wallonia, what drives urban development is the sector plan drawn up in the 1970s. According to this plan, 50,000 hectares, now cultivated or wooded, can still be built. And among them, land of excellent qualities.
So what to do? Freeze everything? Change the sector plan? ” It’s pricelessexplains Joël Privot, urban planner at the University of Liège and stakeholder in the Vesdre Scheme. How can we imagine that “building land”, which is worth between 30 and 150 euros per square meter, can pass into agricultural zones on the sector plan and only be worth between 3 and 5 euros per square meter? There is a huge shortfall. Everyone should be compensated. It is a real taboo even if one day, in a few years or a few decades, we will have to look into it. But to circumvent the problem, Wallonia is putting tools in place to stop this artificialization of the soil “.
The preliminary draft of the CoDT was adopted at second reading by the Walloon government at the end of March 2023. As was the Territorial Development Plan (SDT), a guidance document which determines the territorial strategy for Wallonia. One of the axes developed concerns measures to fight once morest floods and integrate the recommendations of the parliamentary commission of inquiry responsible for examining their progress and causes. They should give more power to the Walloon administration. Wallonia will ask all municipalities to have a communal development plan (SDC), optional for the moment, within 5 years. Only 7 municipalities out of the 25 in the Vesdre basin have one at the moment. They allow a municipality to define the territorial development policy in advance: ” We give them 5 years to have their plan, they will define their centralities themselves, that is to say the urban nodes that they still intend to develop in the futureexplains Willy Borsus, MR Minister for Regional Planning. In these centralities, the densification of the habitat will be encouraged, outside, it will be the opposite. The goal is to gradually achieve the total end of the artificialization of soils, the “STOP-concrete” by 2050 “. If the municipalities do not complete their CDS within the allotted time, the centralities defined at the level of the Walloon Region will take precedence.
Wallonia will also equip itself with another weapon to guarantee the integration of the risks of natural disasters in the development of real estate projects: ” When these elements are not sufficiently taken into account in the granting of the permit, the Region will be able to intervene. This means that the municipalities which continue to build anywhere and anyhow, Wallonia will be equipped legally to prevent them from doing so.specifies Joël Privot. It’s a Copernican revolution… that will make people cringe “.
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