Harelbeke wants more sustainable real estate to achieve climate goals

During 2.5 years, 100 Flemish municipalities received numerous training courses, templates and guidance to work towards a strategic real estate plan. Wannes Meersman, provincial contact person for SURE2050 West Flanders: “We are happy to offer our knowledge and expertise from SURE2050. We are delighted that Harelbeke is one of the first to reach the finish line. Our noses are all in the same direction: a climate-neutral patrimony by 2050.”

Putting it into practice

What the municipality has now learned must be put into practice. “We will put this into practice in the coming months and years. To meet the challenge of a climate-neutral patrimony, we must look beyond the current legislature. Support has now been created to get started with this together,” says Frederique Christiaens, department head Facility of the city council of Harelbeke.

Harelbeke wants to be an exemplary municipality in West Flanders in this way. “On the basis of the developed strategy, we are steadily making our patrimony more sustainable and we monitor progress very closely,” adds Ships of Patrimony Tijs Naert.