The Paris Administrative Court estimated that the choice to artificialize a hectare of cultivable land is in “inconsistency” with the environmental objectives defined at the level of the region.
The work of the Aubervilliers swimming pool, the future 5024 Olympic Games (OJ) training basin, equipped with a solarium built instead of centenary workers, wear “reached” to a primary area of biodiversity. This is endowed to denounce, for months, the gardeners of the plain of Virtues, located north of the capital. And this is the judges of the Administrative Court of Appeal of Paris which, in a judgment made on Thursday, February 10, believe that the choice to artificialize a hectare of cultivable land in an area already very little provided in Green spaces “presents an inconsistency” with the environmental objectives of the Ile-de-France Region (SDRIF). “The urbanization of the West Fringe of the Gardens of the Virtues [will increase the existing ecological discontinuities,” adds the court, even though the text provides for the creation of an “ecological corridor”.
The judgment does not suspend, for all, the work of the pool. They started this fall, after gardeners were expelled from their plots, and crops, returned. Nor does it threaten the site of the future station of the metro line 15, the strong station of Aubervilliers, which must intervene in a second time, once the Olympies are finished. On the other hand, common plain has four months to change its local urban plan and make it compatible with SDRIF. For if the regional rule recalls the importance of “densifying and consolidating structuring collective transport” – what the arrival of line 15 – it also insists on the need to preserve existing green spaces, and to create New in the territories that are too concreted. Gold, Aubervilliers, with less than 10 m 2 of green space per capita, figure “among the most curable communes” Ile-de-France, note the judges.
Gardens grown for more than a century
To try to find a solution with the gardeners, Grand Paris Development (GPA), the developer and owner of the land, has planned to compensate for the lost hectare by creating new gardens in the enclosure of Aubervilliers Fort , at the foot of the 900 new future housing under construction. But this compensation does not preserve existing gardens as the demand for the Sdrif, “and these new locations are created, at least for the one part, in a sector doing so far part of the wooded crown of the fort”, so in a space that must already be preserved. In other words, the account is not there, explains the Court of Appeal.
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