The cable car project at the Citadelle of Namur gets its … (Namur)

The Walloon Heritage Agency has granted the certificate of heritage for the installation of a cable car on the site of the Citadel of Namur, it was reported Tuesday. An application for planning permission will be filed in the course of August

The City of Namur has been working on this issue since 2013, when the feasibility study was launched to finally reach a unanimous decision of the committee. package validating route 9 bis

After the opening of a public contract, the concession contract was awarded in June 2017 to the "Franki-Poma-Labellemontage" consortium, for which the City has committed to an annual fixed amount of 600,000 euros including VAT for 30 years. The winning bid proposes the installation of eight pylons, five of which will be integrated into the Citadelle site as well as two stations, one in the Place Maurice Servais and the other on the esplanade of the citadel.

All the heritage, archeology, landscape, administrative, legal, financial and environmental aspects were the subject of consultations with the Region, the City and a series of experts, the mayor said last June. Analyzes that had allowed the heritage certification committee to give a favorable opinion on the file

Finally, the Walloon Heritage Agency followed this opinion and granted, on July 3rd, the certificate of heritage allowing to begin the process of granting planning permission

In principle, the permit should be issued in early 2019 to begin work in the same year.