Paris Forum

4/4/2019

Karen Landuydt, AGSL (City Development Agency of Leuven)

HertogensiteOvercoming governance barriers to promote successful stakeholder synergies

HertogensiteAs a city you can be ambitious but how to get change realised?

Hertogensite

Challenge:

How to get others to realize your plans and visions?

HertogensiteWho are the actors and stakeholders?

1 University Hospital: site owner

2 Developer

3 Masterplanner

HertogensiteWho are the actors and stakeholders?

Resultaat: oud masterplan

RESISTANCE:

- To dense

- Missing public and green space

- All the heritage demolished

4 Civil Society and 5 City of Leuven

HertogensiteWho are the actors and stakeholders?

Developer and masterplanner

CityCivil Society

Working together balancing out

- New development

- Nature

- Heritage

HertogensiteWho are the actors and stakeholders?

6 Flemish Government: Brownfield covenant

Realisation covenants:

7 VMM: Flemish environment agency

8 Agency for Heritage

9 Social Housing Company

10 Mobility Company

Agreements on:

- Sustainability

- Public Space

- Public Facilities

- Heritage conservation

- Water management

- Amount of social housing in the project

- Sustainable mobility measures

- …

Hertogensite“Good agreements make good friends”, but how about the next step?

City made the spatial development plan: making it legally possible

Hertogensite“Good agreements make good friends”, but how about the next step?

Developer started designing: masterplan public space and project design

Hertogensite“Good agreements make good friends”, but how about the next step?

Developer started designing: masterplan public space and project design

Design lacked ambition and quality

HertogensiteHow to find the energy to keep working together?

- Mutual understanding of expectations and ‘issues

- Finding solutions together

- Much better results

People got frustrated Intense co-creative workshops

HertogensiteBig question for the future process:

How to keep actors and stakeholders engaged and ambitious through the entire process of a complex spatial project?