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ANDENNE 1.What about the car park that runs alongside the railway lines?
Owner: SNCB (National Belgian Rail Company).
Employment rate: significant because the SNCB has just had to increase the capacity of the car park. Nevertheless, depending on the project the SNCB is prepared to modify or to permit the modification of this part of the site.
ANDENNE 2. Is the hangar situated to the West of the car park, adjoining the SNCB lines, still used?
Yes and furthermore it is involved in the sector plan in the industrial area. Nevertheless, strategic considerations have led one to think that in the future this site must have principally residential functions. Additional functions (housing small- and medium-sized enterprises, from the tertiary sector for example) could be developed there. This building is nevertheless not covered by the area under consideration (see question 13).
ANDENNE 3.What about the old 'hangar' which is located directly to the East of the train station? Must the train station and its adjacent technical building necessarily be kept as they are?
The station must be kept as it is. The SNCB, which owns the train station and the building located to the East of it, encourages proposals which would envisage a new use for the adjacent building, in addition to the current spaces and volumes, without excluding the possibility of part of the new construction(s). It nevertheless wants to have the possibility of maintaining a minimal surface area for office activities and for arranging the material necessary for the management of the site surrounding the train station.
ANDENNE 4. What about the multi-purpose spaces?
The political authorities and the SNCB are open to any innovative solution that takes into account the current construction of crossings under the railways and under the viaduct, the public spaces linked to the modal transfers…
ANDENNE 5. What are the needs and expectations of the town (public facilities…)? Must school facilities be improved when the project is carried out?
: The town currently has a sufficient number of public facilities, of a sufficient quality. On the contrary, the supply of offices is currently insufficient given the fact that the site is situated halfway between Namur and Liège and in the large area under the influence of Brussels.
ANDENNE 6. What is the proposed scope for the building owned by the ‘DLM Print’companies, companies which are still operating, but located in the action area?
As with the other industrial buildings still operating, the town does not want to see their activities developed on that site. On the contrary, it would like to see them moved into a more appropriate area. Furthermore, the town has already instigated this type of transfer for similar bodies, notably by interesting companies in developing liberated land. In this context, the liberated lands will essentially be devoted to housing and small services.
ANDENNE 7. Between the island and the "pont d’Andenne" (Andenne's bridge) , we have identified a significant development on the right bank. To what extent must this be taken into account?
This development includes an area of road which trespasses on the riverbed, with a view to the creation of an additional East-West road or an addition to the RAVEL (slow lines’ network…) link, as well as an increase in spaces allotted for housing. In fact, the position of Andenne, on the banks of the river Meuse, near (around 15km) from Namur, the capital of the walloon region, is of particular attraction as a site to house the numerous officials, employees and workers of the new small enterprises which have recently been developed in relation with the new political function of the Namur body. This is especially true, given that sales prices for buildings and rent in Namur have shot up over the last few years and given that this trend is showing no sign of being reversed.
The development desired within the framework of Europan, on the left bank, must take these new products into account as well as their functional impacts and their impacts on the landscape.
To the West, the area outside the study area, currently devoted to a retirement home for senior citizens, is destined to receive a service home (autonomous accommodation for senior citizens with quick access to care and hair services, hotels, restaurants and cafés) operating in the retirement home. The project should focus on transition, whilst taking into account possible functional compatibility with these buildings.
ANDENNE 8. What kind of intervention can we envisage on the island?
None. The area is currently classified as ‘Natura 2000’ and is therefore subject to strict regulations related to the natural character of the site. This project can take into account the particularly qualitative landscape-related aspect that this space constitutes.
ANDENNE 9. Can we envisage the creation of a marina?
No. The current towpath must be left free. No access is planned to allow river traffic to stop or to moor, given the significant difference in water levels which currently exists between the river and the riverbank. Furthermore, an identical project has already been planned on the other bank of the river (see question 7).
ANDENNE 10. Can you tell us what the water level of the river Meuse is? What is the average level, and within what range can it fluctuate during the different seasons?
The difference in the water level between the left bank quay and the Meuse is quite significant in all seasons and makes it difficult to conceive of a design which would advocate the use of this quay as a mooring area. The costs for such an adaptation have not yet been taken into account by the town officials.
ANDENNE 11. Do we have to wait for a precise topographical plan from altitude to be supplied?
No, to the extent that, within the ideas’ competition, it is possible to consider that the site as a whole is flat, apart from the viaduct which is built over the railway lines, for which we will arbitrarily take into account a free height under a 9m roadway spanning the breadth of the underlying roads.
Generally speaking, the candidates only have to take the current regulations allocating the spaces to the West of pont d'Andenne for industrial activities into account in passing, since the economic evolution of the Andenne region should fairly quickly lead to a revision of the current regulation documents which would benefit urbanisation, favouring housing as well as the various functions which are related to it. With this in mind, this functional mix will doubtless be one of the main guidelines which will have to be taken into consideration.
ANDENNE 12. Have industrial activities compromised the use of soils and the cultivation of vegetable gardens or domestic gardens?
In the context of the ideas' competition, it is not necessary to take into account any possible pollution. Various incentives and structural aids exist in Wallonia to enable this concern to be efficiently taken into account in the operational phase.
ANDENNE 13. Could you clarify which areas would be yielded to give access from rue E. Godfrind to the rosy pastures? Overall, can we intervene with regard to the existing building which is not included in the site project, but is included in the site study? Can we broaden the study and the project beyond the limits established?
The limits for the various sites were established after consultation with the local authorities, based on how relevant they were to the consideration proposed. These are, at first sight, areas where it seems realistic for intervention to take place and for an urban operation of a corresponding size to be carried out over a normal time period. Those projects which involved exceeding the limits of the area would be subject to the approval of the jury, concerning their admissibility on the one hand, and on the other hand would run the risk of potentially being penalised by the authorities responsible for the site if said authorities considered that the ideas developed were incompatible with the general good management of the new proposed limits. Based on the strength of conviction of the winning projects, structural modifications and any possible indispensable expropriations that they would propose would probably not constitute a real obstacle to a good quality project, but the risk created by exceeding the area’s limits cannot be considered negligible.
ANDENNE 14. Are there any precise restrictions, in terms of surface and level of quality, if the buildings are to serve as housing, shops or offices?
No. Indeed, one of the challenges of the ideas’ competition is to convince people of the quality of these functions and to suggest a functional modification which wins people over by adapting their answers to the limits presented by the site.
ANDENNE 15. Is there a detailed plan of the SNCB’s properties? Is any one of the buildings (the train station and/or the adjacent building) ‘classified’ (as a historical monument)?
We do not have any useful plan of the SNCB’s buildings (train station and/or adjacent building). We did not deem it particularly useful to get one, since on the one hand the train station cannot be changed and on the other hand, if a modification to the adjacent building is planned in the project, there may be a draft proposal for the adjacent building, for which the jury will assess the relevance of ideas much more than architectural details – which would require a more detailed basic plan.
ANDENNE 16. Could you provide us with a map with the bus routes which go through Andennes train station? Where are the routes now exactly, in relation to the site?
The bus routes departing from the train station regularly serve the surrounding villages through a network of bus routes in most neighbouring directions: Namur, Huy, Ohey and Ciney, Fernelmont. Special school transport services and services to the neighbouring prison are organised less frequently.
OTTIGNIES 11. How advanced is the project for the future West car park? It has been explained that a promoter has already been chosen. How much room for manoeuvre do we have, from the proposed project?
The principle of the West car park project has been accepted by the Town. However the town planning permit has not yet been introduced and must be submitted to the town’s requirements, which may take into account the ideas of the winning project in the competition, with regard to possible above-ground constructions, in the upper part of the 3 parking levels that are planned…
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