Lommel’s couple finds a gigantic water pipe under their plot: “The judge has ordered us to continue building, but the city has not allowed us to…”

Your own house, a place in the sun. It is a dream of many Belgians and also of Filip Hendriks (45) and An Willekens (45) from Lommel. Although that plan does not go smoothly for them. The couple bought a building plot ten years ago, but during the works they suddenly encountered an enormous water pipe that provides drinking water to around 150,000 Limburgers. “That was not stated in the deed of sale.” After legal proceedings that have been dragging on for years, a construction site that has been at a standstill ever since and an accumulation of setbacks later, they tell their story: “If we had known about the water pipe, we would never have bought the land!”

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