The project meets various needs, mainly the desire for more frequent encounters. The neighbourhood predominantly consists of social housing and large apartment complexes, so there is a high demand for quality outdoor space. Social tenants are the main users of the living garden, but residents of the surrounding houses also drop in, for example, to maintain the herb garden.
In the Borluut living garden, activities to engage the neighbourhood are fully underway, but even without these initiated neighbourhood activities, people who have been living next door to each other for years are growing closer. The Covid-19 period increased the urgency of the garden: bored children as well as lonely elderly people were invited to talk to their neighbours in the living garden and enjoy some fresh air.

These temporary living streets offer the perfect platform for the city to experiment with an adapted infrastructure, alternative forms of mobility, local and remote parking, greenery in the streetscape, etc. They offer an ideal opportunity for citizens and residents to get to know all the neighbours better and to create more space to spend time outdoors, especially for those who do not have their own garden.