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General Policy

General Policy Statement

The general policy statement is a document which states the main directions which should characterize this council's term of office. These directions will lead to specific projects which will be our successive objectives during the next few years. It is possible that there will be problems in implementing some of them due to unforeseen circumstances, whereas other projects which have not been planned may see the light of day as a result of opportunities which are not known today but which might open up in the future. We will need to seize these insofar as they serve our municipality's interests.

The main concern is to develop our heritage, our property heritage, our tourist heritage and our historical and cultural heritage in order to make our municipality all the more attractive and to improve the living environment of each one of us.

More practically, we must continue to improve the municipal highways - the roads as such and the retaining walls, the by-roads but also the agricultural and forest roads.

We are going to gradually continue to improve our water supply network and catchment protection in close collaboration with SWDE with the aim of making up for occasional inadequate supply and improving the quality of our water.

As an extension of the future facilities of the purification plants at Corbion, Poupehan, Rochehaut and Frahan, we will complete our drainage network in these places. We will ask for endoscopic studies in the other villages and will complete their networks so that everywhere can have collective sewerage.

We are going to take up again a policy of renovating listed buildings such as the town hall, the Provost's House and the museums, continue the renovation, extension and securing of public school buildings, places of worship and other buildings with the concern to make serious energy savings and use other forms of energy.

At the same time, we will continue the policy of cleaning up sites and certain municipal buildings, together with the fight against all forms of insalubrity found in private buildings using all the means at our disposal. Very special efforts will be made in terms of the cleanliness of the whole area, whether in our streets, our villages, our countryside or our forest. But it will only be effective if each one of us is involved.

Cleaning up is necessary, smartening up is just as necessary: this involves extra decoration, developing sites and buildings but also and above all greater compliance with town planning and police rules.

All this should reinforce the attractiveness of our municipality for tourists, which is important for our economy, but we will need to look again at land use in our area so that we can create, alone or in synergy with other municipalities, craft and commercial economic zones to ensure redeployment of jobs in our area.

In terms of education, we want to continue to renovate the existing infrastructure, especially the Corbion and Bouillon sites, and to extend Mogimont school - nursery section and consider developing Noirefontaine school. But the attractiveness of the buildings does not automatically ensure the quality of the education. We need to prioritize the acquisition and mastery of the basic subjects to which we could add education in the history of our municipality.

In the social area, it will be important to support the CPAS's welfare action, encourage the creation of meeting places for all ages and play spaces, support the role of the sports clubs by improving their facilities, develop a school prevention policy (drugs, alcohol, tobacco, …), increase out-of-school childcare, fight against different forms of uncivil behaviour, and encourage the development of more dispersed social housing.

At the cultural level, we will support the quality initiatives of the existing Cultural Centre, initiatives which will make it possible for young people to access different forms of cultural expression. We will encourage better synergy between the museums, the Archéoscope and the castle: we will support the redeployment of the library and the request for recognition of the culture and leisure centre. Setting up places of culture will remain a vital concern.

All these objectives fit into the framework of the different procedures such as the triennial programmes, rural renovation, urban renovation and regeneration, the municipal mobility plan, the school buildings fund, the disused industrial sites, heritage, the tourism committee, etc. and even the use of European programmes. But all these objectives require more skills to carry them out well. We will find them either outside, or within, our services. In this case, in view of how it is becoming more complicated to draw up and deal with the dossiers, we must consider adapting the administrative framework of our municipality to meet current requirements.

Achieving these objectives, one on top of the other, will ensure our municipality can be promoted along with all its social and economic components.

Approved at the municipal council meeting of 12 April 2007.