For several weeks, the future of the CHR has been at the center of discussions in Verviers. All the political forces in Verviers joined forces on Monday evening to ask the CHR for an additional study in order to consider other options for rebuilding the hospital, while a path presented last June recommended its reconversion into housing and its reconstruction on the site known as Laboru, next to the aerodrome. This option was far from unanimous among the elected representatives of Verviers, who would like other solutions to be analyzed.
At Ecolo, they imagine rebuilding the hospital on the current site in the form of a quadrilateral with a central green space, announced Dany Smeets. This scenario led the political party to request a study to explore this possibility in more detail.
After lengthy debates and an interruption of the session, the council thus “officially requested from the CHR Verviers an additional study which examines and deepens within a short period of 60 days maximum, with the help of architects and town planners, the medical, financial and town planning feasibility of a scenario of reconstruction of a hospital on site, without interrupting the current activities of the latter within a reasonable time frame as well as on other potential locations”, listed Hajib El Hajjaji.
The municipal council also decided to mandate the administrators who represent the City in the CHR Administrative Body to no longer move forward with a scenario of rebuilding a new site at Laboru or another alternative location until the requested study is completed and until the municipal council has been able to debate its conclusions.
The resolution, which received support from other parties, was signed by all group leaders and will be forwarded to the CHR’s governing bodies, opening the way to new debates on the future of the hospital.
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