At Tervuren’s latest council meeting, elected officials somehow managed to cram invasive species, environmental anxiety, a muddy bike path to Brussels, and diplomatic garbage rights into a single, meandering evening. The unlikely star of the hour-long episode: the Asian hornet.
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Tervuren school cost triples to €28mn
Plans for the new school in Tervuren’s Moorsel are now cited tentatively at €28mn rather than the pre-electoral €10mn. Mayor Thomas Geyns and his team is talking of a lively village square school for some 300 kids, safely off the main road behind the parsonage. The building would even be available for community use outside school hours.
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Tervuren to Shut Down Brusselsesteenweg in Jan
This month, the Brusselsesteenweg—Tervuren’s central spine—will be blocked not once but repeatedly, courtesy of a flurry of municipal decrees approved by the town’s leadership. Between January 21 and January 27, multiple sections of the Brusselsesteenweg will be closed, narrowed, or made inaccessible to through traffic. Only “local traffic” will be allowed to pass—a familiar administrative […]
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No Ice-Skating for Tervuren in 2026: What to Know
Don’t dust off the skates this year. A brief cold snap won’t revive the frozen-lake free-for-all of 2022, despite the occasional teenage dash onto the ice spotted last week. Bad news for winter romantics: Tervuren’s lakes are unlikely to freeze solid enough for skating in 2026. Even with temperatures dipping to –5°C, Europe’s 30-day forecast […]