An open-air swimming pool in Flemish Brabant that is also popular with Brussels residents during the summer, named Huizingen,will not open this year.
The province of Flemish Brabant wants to close the pool, and while opposition parties in the Beersel municipality, where the pool is located, wanted to file a motion asking the province to reconsider, Bruzz reports they were unable to find explicit support from the majority.
After earlier protests by opposition parties Vlaams Belang, Groen and PVDA within the provincial council, the Beersel opposition wanted the motion to apply some extra pressure.
No support for motion challenging closure
The motion was on the agenda of the municipal council in Beersel this week, but the majority didn’t support it. “I have the feeling that the majority has quietly agreed to the closure,” said Beersel's Groen party leader Jan Steyaert in De Standaard.
The majority has said there are other options to absorb the closure. “We’re asking for a study in which all options are considered,” said Mayor Hugo Vandaele.
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“I have asked our deputies that we get equal treatment to Leuven: if there is a swimming pool in Leuven and Diest, I do not see why there should not be one here.”
The swimming pools in Diest and Leuven will also close, but in a few years' time.
