What is it about?
This project is a continuation of the European URBINAT programme, which focuses on urban regeneration in European cities, and runs in parallel with the project to extend the heating network from the Bruxelles-Propreté incinerator.
The City of Brussels is planning to improve the continuity and comprehensibility of the 'green corridor', an active transport pathway linking the Van Praet zone to the Versailles neighbourhood, via the Neder-Over-Heembeek sports centre.
Designed to improve the quality of life of residents by providing spaces for leisure and relaxation, the redevelopment of this 'green corridor' will focus on the comfort of active transport methods, integrated rain water management, soil permeability, as well as biodiversity and environmentally-friendly transport issues.
An interdepartmental working group has been set up to ensure the coherence and coordination of work on road improvements, public spaces and green spaces in the area.
What purpose?
This project meets the following ambitions and objectives:
- Boosting the supply of facilities and services around a network combining cycle and pedestrian mobility, while preserving the existing landscape and biological attributes of Neder-Over-Heembeek, the future regional 'nature' destination
- Developing the green network as a support for active transport methods and biodiversity
- Rebalancing and diversifying the uses of public spaces
- Improving the safety and quality of public spaces for the purposes of living and environmental resilience
- Developing a strategy to reduce soil sealing in the city of Brussels and make its public spaces greener
- Responding to the lack of green spaces by creating new public green spaces and improving the environmental quality of existing ones
