What is it about?
The Heysel plateau, the site of the 1935 and 1958 Universal Exhibitions, is now home to a number of major facilities that have been added over the years without any real urban coherence.
The aim of the NEO project is to transform the 68 hectares of the Heysel plateau into a genuine urban district, attractive to residents and visitors alike, while ensuring excellent links with neighbouring districts and the city centre. This ambitious project will include housing, shops, green areas, recreational facilities, sports facilities and community infrastructures.
Among NEO's various initiatives is the creation of a new link road to connect the Ring with the Heysel plateau, passing under the Chaussée Romaine (with two lanes in each direction) to avoid a traffic overload in neighbouring districts during major events.
What purpose?
This project meets the following ambitions and objectives:
- To transform the Heysel plateau into an exemplary new multifunctional city combining business and leisure tourism, a regional shopping and sports centre and housing, intended for international, national and regional visitors as well as local residents and new inhabitants
- To reorganise motorised traffic by prioritising main roads and freeing part of the Heysel Plateau and its surroundings from surface parking in order to create a network of high-quality public spaces that can be used by everyone.
