Popular beach bar the day before grand opening cancelled after complaint from two neighbors

Kruisem The FIKA Beach Bar on Friday, six weekends organised would be, in the extreme, abandoned. “Two neighbors have discovered a bug in our application and use that now to the entire organization to collapse,” according to promoters Vanessa Vervaeck and Ed Standaert. “A great disappointment for the thousands of people attending the event looked forward, and a giant opdoffer for us.”

The FIKA Beach Bar saw the light of day in Deinze and is extremely popular. At the beginning of this year moved to the trendy concept for a winter version to the Meirestraat in Kruishoutem. Was the response large, and therefore, the initiator for their summer edition at the same place to organize.

From the local authority was the requirement of operating licence applied for. “On april 8, we have also obtained. The municipality had in the previous edition, not a single complaint received in the areas of hindrance. We had all possible measures taken against noise and also the traffic flow was neatly arranged. With the licence in your pocket, we have the past few weeks worked very hard to make the site a prime location to create,” says Ed Standaert.

Two residents pointed out a mistake in the delivered permit. This means we have the event prohibit

Joop Versele (CD&V)

Complaint

But at the beginning of this week the church is suddenly bad news. There was someone filed a complaint. Two neighbors, which is just across the border with Waregem live, had a ‘flaw’ discovered in the delivered permit. “The complainants have us with that offence faced, and therefore need to be we event ban, how bad-we also find,” says the Kruisemse mayor Joop Versele (CD&V).