City of Antwerp promises more green areas in 2023

This year, the City of Antwerp is planting new forest on six plots, together accounting for 6.4 hectares of extra nature. The forest plots are located in Wilrijk, Ekeren, Berendrecht and Linkeroever (Left Bank). With the planting of these new forests, the city continues to focus on greening the public space and improving the living…

ANTWERP | Preliminary draft of Strategic Spatial Plan approved

The City of Antwerp is working on a new spatial plan for Antwerp that meets all the spatial challenges facing the city. This strategic vision will guide and shape the spatial development of the city in the coming decades. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the preliminary design for the Strategic Spatial Plan (Strategisch…

ANTWERP | Looking for Linkeroever Railway Station

Once upon a time there was a railway station on Antwerp‘s River Scheldt‘s Left Bank: Antwerpen-Linkeroever. On a frisk but sunny December 2021 morning, Famo and I went on the hunt for remnants of Antwerp-Left Bank Railway Station and now lost parts of Railway Line 59.