Cost issues
For questions of cost or need for room, the municipalities therefore sometimes decide to put a building on the ground to which residents are attached.
But there are also cases of successful conversions. Recently in a answer to a question written in the Walloon Parliament to the deputy Maxime Daye (MR), Minister Valérie Lescrenier (the committed) gave several examples.
She first mentioned the case of the Notre-Dame de Jodoigne chapel (Walloon Brabant) which was the subject of a multifunctional retraining. “”Thanks to an innovative financial assembly combining several public sources, it now hosts concerts, exhibitions and projections while maintaining a cult activity in the choir. The town, looking for a medium -sized cultural hall, has been able to take advantage of this opportunity. “
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She also pointed out the case of the commune of Rebecq (Walloon Brabant) which is developing a project in the disused chapel of the former hospice of the Augustins. “”Located on the same site as the municipal house, it will be transformed into a library, thanks to cross-funding between the Walloon recovery plan and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. “
Another chapel, this time, in the province of Liège this time, will also become a municipal library. This is the Notre-Dame de Saive chapel.
In the Liège region always we can still cite the basilica of the Sacred Heart and Notre-Dame de Lourdes, better known as the Basilica of Cointe. “Desecrated for 14 years, it will be the subject of a particularly ambitious project. Called Basilica experience, it plans to create an indoor climbing room and a high -end panoramic restaurant. The choir will be preserved for memorial purposes, while the crypt and the sacristy will remain assigned to worship.”
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It is therefore possible to turn to Wallonia in order to carry out a retraining project when a property is classified. “”The Walloon Code of Heritage provides, as for other classified assets, possibilities for catering grants with subsidies ranging from 50 to 75 % depending on the case. However, the subsidy is calculated on the basis of expenses allowing the conservation of criteria and interests which have justified the classification “explains the Minister who specifies that the subsidiation cannot concern expenditure related to energy or ventilation.
Let us also add to this that in order to be able to rehabilitate an old religious building, it must first be desecrated and follow a disaffection procedure which can sometimes take some time.