> After the Lierse groundwork company Heylen caused major environmental nuisance and let the city get nowhere, local residents took their case to court. The court strongly reprimanded the city and the company. The city’s response is no lie: everything is being done to help the company obtain a permit that would mean even greater nuisance. The province of Antwerp is also remarkably lenient.
> …
> In the meantime, the city’s drive for the groundwork company is impressive: in approving the Class 1 permit, it ignored the advice of its own environmental expert. It unlawfully renewed a road route destroyed by Flanders in order to remove a procedural obstacle in the dossier and refused to take action against Heylen’s environmental violations.
> The argumentation is particularly striking: in order not to act, the city invoked the “presumption of authorization” for a K1 permit. That argument, according to the Mechelen court, is legal nonsense.
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Another week, another NVA scandal. Some quotes:
> After the Lierse groundwork company Heylen caused major environmental nuisance and let the city get nowhere, local residents took their case to court. The court strongly reprimanded the city and the company. The city’s response is no lie: everything is being done to help the company obtain a permit that would mean even greater nuisance. The province of Antwerp is also remarkably lenient.
> …
> In the meantime, the city’s drive for the groundwork company is impressive: in approving the Class 1 permit, it ignored the advice of its own environmental expert. It unlawfully renewed a road route destroyed by Flanders in order to remove a procedural obstacle in the dossier and refused to take action against Heylen’s environmental violations.
> The argumentation is particularly striking: in order not to act, the city invoked the “presumption of authorization” for a K1 permit. That argument, according to the Mechelen court, is legal nonsense.
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