The project to build a school on the Donderberg site, in Laeken, will be abandoned by the Brussels PS-MR+-Engaged majority. To cope with the increase in population, solutions will have to be found elsewhere.
The new PS-MR+-Engaged majority of the City of Brussels will bury the project to build a school on the site you Donderbergin Laeken. It plans to replace it with a park project, its leaders indicated Thursday morning. They presented the future college of mayors and aldermen. as well as some aspects of the majority agreement, the detailed presentation of which will be made jointly with that reserved for municipal councilors shortly.
The current 2.6 hectare green wasteland on the Donderberg site adjoins the Jardins du Fleuriste in Laeken. Besides that of a school of 672 studentsthe construction project provides for a sports hall, a building comprising eight housing units and a car park with 17 spaces. The project hit the headlines for several years.
During the campaign, the leader of the MR, David Weytsmanhad notably said that he did not see “how we could gain a majority with the maintenance of the school project on this site”. The same goes for those in a school that is “too big” on the site du « Dream Tree »in Laeken. According to Mr. Weytsman and Philippe Close, the City will abandon this project.
Faced with demographic growth and the need for school places, there will be compensation elsewhereespecially since the extension project for the “Droomboom” school will be scaled down. The compensation could come in particular from the site of Tour and Taxis where the City acquired two plots of land intended for Education.
The new majority’s project will have other markers, particularly in terms of mobility where traffic patterns will be reviewed, for example, in the Yser district, but also elsewhere, while respecting the principle you STOPaiming to take into account priority of low users and public transportwithout forgetting motorists.
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