Ta daa!
What you see here is the result of months of agonising, and the beginning of Things Actually Happening.
It's the planning application, in octuplicate, with detailed plans & photos. Details of what's inside to follow...
All going well, it will be delivered to the Maison Communale tomorrow morning. That starts the clock ticking for the Commune (Schaerbeek) and the Region (Brussels) to give us their verdict. Not entirely sure how these wholly separate institutions will manage to coordinate their views, but Belgium does excel at multiple overlapping layers of government (who needs a federal goverment anyway) so I'm sure it will all work out somehow.
If I understand correctly (a big if), within 30 days we will get confirmation that the application is complete, and then the Region and the Commune each take another 45 days. End of April by my reckoning.
But this doesn't mean we just just sit back and wait. If the building works are really going to start in August as planned, there's the terms of reference to draw up, builders to choose, wallpaper to peel, rubble to clear and bee boxes to hang. Watch this space...
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