Burgers klagen “slapping” aan door bouwpromotoren in Leuven: “Ze eisten 100.000 euro schadevergoeding omdat we tegen hen ingingen”

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1. “Justice” for the rich.

   It’s all about chilling.

   You need to have balls of steel to take up against the big project developers.

2. The modern mafia.

3. I agree that they are maffia but on the other hand it didn’t really look like a special building. It reminds me of Activist Marc Van Damme.

4. Slapp suits zijn uiteraard walgelijk.

   Maar wat ook walgelijk is-is het feit dat elke burger en hun hond denkt dat zij het recht moeten hebben om hele bouwprojecten te kunnen blokkeren.

   We hebben een woningcrisis. Maar blijkbaar mogen we PAL IN HET CENTRUM van de duurste stad van heel Vlaanderen geen woonproject uitbouwen omdat meneer verderop in het straat zijn “esthetisch karakter” wilt behouden.

   Fuck. Off. Dat is gewoon pure “ik heb het mijn en fuck iedereen anders” logica. Gewoon compleet walgelijk.

5. Oh man, I read the reply of Van Der Paal’s lawyer in the bottom of the article. The lawer is Jorgen Van laer and he’s also a lawyer of the drugcriminals in Antwerp. One of my clients told me that he gets pretty hefty sums from the top and works behind the back of his clients to minimise damage to the top (for example providing statements that his clients knew nothing about but were provided by the top with an extra 5000 euro as a bonus). He’s just the worst of the worst. And that’s the kind of lawyer Van Der Paal hires.

   I had contact with him for a mutual client and his arrogance nearly dripped through my phone.

6. En dit is dus de reden waarom ik wil hebben dat bedrijven zich niet meer met woningen bezighouden. Bouwen uiteraard wel, maar enkel voor individuen, en al helemaal niet voor immobiliën kantoren. Ze halen de betaalbare woningen weg en zetten wooneenheden in de plaats die enkel voor de meest begoeden haalbaar zijn.
   Wie heeft dat “slapping” ingevoerd? Zal wel niet de gewone burger zijn. Stuur daar eens een Pano reportage op af, dat zal al méér zoden aan de dijk brengen dan op zoek gaan naar wie foutief geïnterpreteerde foto’s op een website zette.

7. I understand that there’s a housing shortage in Leuven, but the city is already almost completely saturated.

   Besides, these luxury apartments aren’t going to be rented out for less than the current market price, which is already high af. So this project isn’t a solution for people who are already unable to afford decent housing. Those will still be forced to look elsewhere. Not to mention students who can’t afford to live in Belgium’s college town par excellence.

   The city missed an excellent opportunity to make affordable student housing AND Leuven greener and healthier by giving it a new park in the area. The city is already uninhabitable in the summer, and that is partly due to the fact that there are very few trees and green areas.

   From a more general perspective, shouldn’t the regional/federal government promote the development of housing in less populated, and therefore less profitable towns? What’s the point of having cities grow to unmanageable sizes, especially in terms of density?

8. Yeah suing some group for starting a legal procedure seem like a case that a court shouldn’t even accept in the first place.

   What’s next? Suing for mental agony caused by slapping?

   But I also don’t really understand the scaremongering about a “14 story building”

   That hospital also wasn’t a low building, looks like 10 floors to me.
   And the form of the building doesn’t really allow for subdividing it into apartments, it’s sloped roof is just too many floors. Isolating and sound proofing such a building would also have been a nightmare.

   Call me again when it’s over 40 floors. Belgium seems allergic to even midrise buildings.

   Solving a housing shortage for students with higher buildings seems like a no brainer to me.

   Higher density would also solve many other problems and make the city more efficient. Especially if they combine it with better public transportation and car free zones.

9. De huidige staat van de bouw en immo sector is leguber om het zachtjes te zeggen. Steden en gemeenten kunnen niet op tegen de corruptie of immense rechtszaken en capita die de sector bezit.
   Nog zo een 5-10 jaar en het zal ooit wel weer instorten.