The real champion: Léglise
The real champion is therefore a lightlite, whose population has almost doubled in 20 years! What completely transform a town? “”Services have developed, there is the reappearance of an average food surface, the commercial activity restartsnotes the bourgmestre Simon Huberty.The increase and rejuvenation of the population are not foreign to this dynamism. We are starting to see Horeca activity come back. The biggest challenge is to grow, while keeping our identity and our quality of life. We want to remain a rural town.“
The mayor thinks that this trend is not about to run out of steam. “”We deliver on average about fifty permits per year, he exhibits.There are still projects that come in, some of which include several housing units. There is an attraction to live in Lightlise. We have always tried to master things and we will continue in this direction.“
An attraction that is explained by that of the Grand Duchy, in a town, easy to access, where prices are less unreasonable than near the border.
Three municipalities in decline
In contrast, we find Saint-Hubert, Bouillon and La Roche-en-Ardenne, in demographic regression. They are among the 12 Walloon municipalities which have lost residents over the past 20 years.
These figures do not surprise the Rochois bourgmestre Jean-Pierre Dardenne. It is in rock, the tourism pressure is strong. A property or land for sale is often purchased by resident seconds or investors. “”This is why we have taken regulations to limit the opening of lodges “He said.
The aim of the majority in place to increase the supply of housing and building land “Because demand is there“. Communal building land”Because we could put acquisition conditions: main residence, offer privileged conditions for young households …“, he specifies.
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Decline and financing
The bourgmestre is not worried by demographic regression. The rock remains a dynamic municipality, through tourism. “”What is a problem for me is that young people who want to settle in the rock do not succeed, because there is no possibility or because the prices explode“, Comments Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
At the Walloon Institute of Evaluation, Prospective and Statistics (IWEPS), the research manager Julien Charier is not overly worried about local demographic declines: “Aiming for long -term demographic stability, improvement in services and preservation of rural nature can be an objective.“
However, he notes that a demographic decline “However, may be worrying for the municipal authorities since the financing of the municipalities is partly linked to the number of inhabitants and their level of income.“
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