Central to the entire renewal is the broken -down Heulebeek, which is exposed to a large piece. That is better for water quality and prevents flooding because the water has more space in an open bed than in a tube. Kevin Vromant, Flemish Environment Agency: “Also for ecological life, fishing that can migrate through the tube, through the open part. We don’t just go ecological quality
Top up but also the experience. “
The green zone is expanded to the church, even around the church there is more green. After the works there will be 60 trees more than now. The inhabitants were given participation. “People were a bit afraid to see that parking spaces would disappear. We can say that there is a standards of the number of parking spaces within our center within walking distance.”