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Moving 17:43 11/03/2021 Pascal Smet, state secretary for urban development in the Brussels government, wants to rework regulations to require new houses and flats to include a garden or terrace in the building plan. This is one of the changes he would like to see made to the draft document on development reform. The building code has not been adapted since 2007, so it’s about time. The project has been on the table since the previous government, but now Smet (One.Brussels) wants parliament to take another look before anything is finalised. “I don’t want to deliver a new building code th...

Transport 18:59 05/03/2021 Duelling demonstrations involving around 800 Uber vehicles and 120 taxis caused serious traffic jams on Thursday in central Brussels. At issue was the decision of the Brussels government announced by minister-president Rudi Vervoort to apply strictly the 1995 Brussels ordinance on taxi services and car rental companies with drivers. This stipulates that private hire-car companies, and therefore Uber drivers who circulate under this status, cannot use radio communication devices, including mobile phones, to do business, because these tools are reserved for taxis only...

Belgium 09:39 04/03/2021 A Brussels firefighter has been demoted after responding with a racist comment to a colleague's Facebook post late last year in relation to deaths from Covid-19 in communes with a high-density of immigrants. In October, a member of the Brussels ‎Fire and Emergency Medical Aid Service‎ (Siamu) published a post on his Facebook page, in relation to the figures of the Covid-19 pandemic which read: "Still bizarre that the three municipalities with the most positive cases in Brussels are Anderlecht, Molenbeek, Schaerbeek". Another firefighter replied: "I know why, and I...

The old lifts that are still found in many buildings in Brussels can be considered part of the architectural heritage of the Brussels region, according to the city’s secretary of state for urbanism and heritage.

The old lifts that are still found in many buildings in Brussels can be considered part of the architectural heritage of the Brussels region, according to the city’s secretary of state for urbanism and heritage.