Overijse (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – In Overijse, Viviane Van Den Wouwer is upset about a large dental lab being built in her residential area. The town’s alderman, Jan De Broyer, initially opposed the project.
Overijse town in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, where the new dental lab is constructed, also dislikes the project. If companies or factories move into communities without considering what it would do to the area, the public gets irritated. They worry that the neighborhood won’t be nice anymore and that their lives will be worse.
“We did indeed refuse it at the time and gave negative advice. Because a building of that size does not belong there,”
Says Alderman Jan De Broyer (N-VA-CD&V).
“But the other party then appealed, and the Province agreed with them.“
Is a large concrete dental lab suitable for Overijse’s residential area?
Viviane Van Den Wouwer, a resident of Overijse, was surprised and concerned when she learned about the construction of a new dental prosthesis laboratory in her residential area. While she was aware of the laboratory’s arrival, she had no idea that the building would take such a massive, concrete form.
She especially opposed the structure’s dimensions and architecture as something that might be more applicable to an industrial area than it would be to a residential community. Van Den Wouwer felt that the building’s scale and appearance were completely out of place in a location primarily meant for housing and that it would have been more appropriate for the laboratory to be built in the nearby industrial zone.
Viviane is getting more upset as the new dental lab gets bigger. She takes the bus, and every time she sees the huge building, she feels sad. She mentioned that her friend lives nearby, and now, she can only see the big wall of the building from her bedroom window.
Viviane’s house isn’t right next to the building, but she still thinks a big factory like this doesn’t belong in a neighborhood. She thinks it makes the neighborhood feel different, and she doesn’t feel like it’s her home anymore.
