The intercommunality has four months to propose a new version of its local urban plan, which planned to destroy some of the city workers’ gardens to implement a training pool.
Le Monde with AFP
The Administrative Court of Appeal of Paris invalidated, Thursday, February 10, the Local Plan of Urbanism which allowed to destroy some of the workers’ gardens of Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) to establish a swimming pool. In view of the Olympic Games (OJ) of 2024.
In his judgment, the Court justified his decision by invoking a “attack” to biodiversity, adding:
“It is enjoined to the President of the Territorial Public Institution Plaine Joint to initiate the procedure for modifying the Local Plan of Intercommunal Urbanism in that it classifies in urban zone part of the West Fringe of the Gardens of the Virtues . “
Intercommunality, led by the Mayor of Saint-Denis, the Socialist Mathieu Hotino, has four months to propose a new mill, she said.
In its judgment, the Court, competent with the dispute around the Olympic projects, recalled that the disputed document presented “inconsistencies” with its own obligations, including environmental obligations. The future aquatic center has a solarium, which must be built about about 4,000 square meters of food plots (whose productions are intended for self-consumption).
Legal battle
“There is no immediate consequence on the issue of work, the building permit remains valid. It does not call into question the project,” reacted Mr. Hanoto, ensuring that the common plain would put in accordance with . Solicited, the municipality of Aubervilliers stated that it did not want to react “at this point”.
“We always said that the project was illegitimate, now it’s illegal. For the first time justice gives us right by saying them” You do not have the right to do what you did “,”, Reacted Ziad Maalouf, one of the gardeners at the origin of the query.
A legal battle is committed around the project. Opponents, which estimate countercurrent of the ecological emergency, also attacked the building permit and took place for four months in 2021. Briefly suspended by court decision, the work was finally able to continue. What did not stop activists on 2 February to cling to a concreteer until the intervention of the police.
In the amount of 33 million euros, one third of which is funded by solid (the company responsible for delivering the works for the games of 2024), the aquatic center must serve as a training basin for swimmers during Olympics, before being accessible to the inhabitants.