Detailed Roadmap for the Waterfront Pilot in Bruges

This detailed roadmap for the waterfront pilot in Bruges primarily illustrates the bigger picture: our goal towards climate neutrality and spatial quality in the Kaaidistrict, accompanied by the long-term vision of the city, including important policy plans as the climate plan and the spatial policy plan. The pilot area of Re-Value, the Kaaidistrict, has already been designated as a transformation area in the spatial policy plan of Bruges (2023), a place where the city aims to achieve climate neutrality on a small scale in the short term. The Re-Value project, with relevant partners and partner cities, guides the city of Bruges to reach our goal by linking several policy plans, foresee staff budget and funds for community building to realise the action plan for the Kaaidistrict, which is a result of the Impact Model Workshop.

Re-Value gives the city the space to experiment with new spatial instruments and community building (Kaaiklappers) to reach this goal. The action plan consists of three main themes, three anchors to which all actions carried out until the end of 2026 can be linked. The three anchors are: community building, spatial transformation and ‘design by research’. Every action of each anchor is described. For each actions the activities, timing and state of play are added. Furthermore we discussed stakeholder management and the connection with Re-Value. The annex of this roadmap gives more insights in the pre-Re-Value situation of Bruges, the local and supralocal policy plans regarding to spatial quality and climate neutrality. The annex also describes the Kaaidistrict, the pilot area of Re-Value. Several studies and simulations were carried out and are also explained in this annex.

D3.1 Detailed Roadmap for the Waterfront Pilot in Bruges