Building permit for well -known facade in Ghent approved, only the owner falls from the air (Ghent)
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The employers’ organization Voka Oost-Vlaanderen has filed a complaint with the Order of Architects after a permit was approved for the renovation of the facade of their headquarters in Ghent without its knowledge. An activist group that strikes for more greenery in the city turned out to be behind that request.
« A few weeks ago a yellow paper with a building permit for the Voka Box on our facade, on the South in Ghent, explains Geert Moerman, managing director of Voka East Flanders. « We had not submitted a building application. So yes, we were surprised with an official building permit, delivered and signed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of Ghent. Our web structure on the facade could be demolished and replaced by a number of flower boxes with geraniums on the outside of the windows, we established with incomprehension. »
A phone call to the Urban Building Department showed that the building permit had been submitted correctly and had completed the entire procedure – and was therefore formally approved, while Voka knew nothing as the owner of the building. An activist group that strives for more greenery in the city turned out to have submitted the application. Voka does not leave it at that and filed a complaint against the architects who licensed the renovation. “ »
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