Middelkerke Mayor Jean-Marie Dedecker, and are schepencollege the construction of a new casino in Middelkerke stopped. “No planning, and no financial plan: – Willemen remained systematic in the absence, Dedecker. There will be a new international tender will be floated. The municipality is the risk, however, a compensation to have to pay to Willemen.
There will definitely be an end to the casinoproject that already from the beginning on all sides of criticism. In 2015 decided the former city council that the old casino on the seawall had to be replaced by a new construction project. Two candidates apply for the construction and operation: on the one hand, Napoleon Games and Group Willemen, on the other hand, Golden Palace and Group Versluys. The city council will choose in the summer of 2016 for the first project, but Versluys get to the Council of State. “The procedure is unlawful and successful”, stated Bart Versluys when. “The jurybeoordelingen rewritten, were the beneficiaries three times, a different design proposals, and has consistently measured a bit with the deadlines.” There were, for example, no independent experts in the jury. The Council of State gave Versluys are the same and the procedure had to be repeated.