The city council has not received any formal complaints from residents, Het Nieuwsblad reports, but landowners who notice or suspect their properties are being used for sex work are encouraged to report them.
Failing to do so could put them at risk of being prosecuted for pimping or organising prostitution, which, unlike private prostitution, is illegal in Belgium.
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