The reform of the territorial development plan (SDT) was approved by the Walloon government this Thursday.
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By Stéphane Vande VeldePublished on 04/25/2024 at 12:16
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VSt was the last major project of the legislature and we had to wait until the last Walloon government for the definitive adoption of the Territorial Development Plan (SDT), led by the Minister of Regional Planning, Willy Borsus. As a reminder, following the floods, the liberal had carried out two reforms, that of the CoDT (Territorial Development Code), already approved and entered into force on 1er April, and that of the SDT, which had not been updated for 25 years. When it was presented last year, this reform raised numerous criticisms from the municipalities, both on the timing – they had only a few weeks to swallow the 272 pages, during a summer period when it was complicated to bring together the municipal colleges, – as well as on the purpose (rural municipalities had great difficulty defining a single central zone, some also fearing to distort their heritage character by the construction of apartment buildings).
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