The growing importance of a healthy environment and liveable areas, result in ever complex regulations. Enterprises and private individuals seek to contribute to a better life and living environment, but sometimes get caught up in a legal tangle. The extensive experience of Schuermans advocaten helps enterprises, farmers and horticulturists, local authorities and private individuals to realize their projects and goals, with respect for the current regulations and norms.
Our practice includes, among others, assistance in the context of:
- environmental permits for the exploitation of classified establishments
- environmental permits for the performance of urban planning acts
- environmental permits for retail activities
- environmental permits for the division of land
- planning
- planning certificates
- recovery claims
- cease and desist orders
- expropriation
- soil- and other contamination
- nature conservation
- environmental taxes
- vacancy charges
- administrative procedures before local, regional and federal government agencies, as well as before the Council of State, other administrative courts and the Constitutional Court
- civil and criminal liability of obstructive establishments.
Examples
Successful assistance of an energy consultant during the negotiations and implementation of a large-scale heat grid on the territory of the municipalities of Edegem and Mortsel, which collects industrial residual heat for the supply to the neighbourhood, including some new development projects, of sustainable energy.
Successfully challenging, during an administrative appeal, a decision of refusal of the construction of 20 apartments in a municipality based, amongst others, on the illegality of a municipal policy regarding densification and construction pauses.
Reaching an agreement with the inspection of urban planning regarding various urban planning offenses, in the form of an amicable settlement so that the enforcement was bought off, extinguishing the recovery claims resting on the real estate.
Successful representation of the interests of a project developer who had a dispute with a buyer of a permit project regarding the financial valuation of the transferred project in light of a changed urban planning policy with regard to spatial intensification and return.