The cancellation of the 2018 permits brings the park located in Wavre back to the administrative situation of 2015 and the officials intend to ask the municipality of Wavre as soon as possible to regularize what has been built for 7 years. Pending the outcome of this procedure, the park considers that it can operate normally.
The Council of State seized by the association “Les Versants de la Dyle” and some individual residents recently canceled the single permit granted to Walibi in January 2018, as well as the integrated permit granted on August 13, 2018. of Walibi Belgium, Jean-Christophe Parent, indicated on Wednesday that he had analyzed these parts and now specifies that the park will be open normally on April 2: all the infrastructures will be put into operation.
Given the cancellation of permits, some buildings now constitute urban planning offences. This is not the case for the Pulsar or the Tiki Waka, attractions which were covered by the 2015 permit, but the 2018 permit, which no longer exists, authorized the construction of the Fun Pilot and the Kondaa, as well as ancillary infrastructure. For Jean-Christophe Parent, a procedure is planned to regularize the situation and Walibi is doing everything possible to prepare these files as quickly as possible. Pending the outcome of this procedure, he considers that nothing prevents normal operation of the park.
“We are therefore able to open all the infrastructures on April 2, the first day of operation of the season,” he says. It is not a question at this stage of requesting a new permit but a request for regularization from the municipality, which had already given its agreement on the infrastructures concerned within the framework of the permits granted in 2018. “We have been here for 47 years and I have the firm intention of continuing to develop the park”, further specifies the general manager of Walibi Belgium.