Ypres presents masterplan Strategic Spie

About 400 people from Ypres will receive more information during four sessions in cultural center Het Perron. A consultancy firm selected and elaborated one of three scenarios. The city wants to upgrade the lost part of the city into a modern and green area that forms a whole with the old city. In the long-term plans, pilots at the military barracks would accommodate SMEs. The wide Oud Warrior Avenue would be relocated, away from the ramparts.

(read further below the plan)

Alderman for urban development Philip Bolle: “That is an area of ​​90 hectares with many possibilities: nature, housing, a retail park, … Hence an RUP with the province and a development plan with the WVI. We would possibly move it so that it lies against the track and create a large piece of nature where living would be given a prominent place.”