In Loir-et-Cher, an investor relaunches a contested golf project of 27 holes surrounded by half a million second homes. The public consultation at the town hall ends while the mobilization is left against the project.
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For its detractors, it is a bit of the Saudi ski resort project reported to the Loire Valley. For his supporters, this is the possibility of a manna of tax revenue comparable to that of the EDF nuclear power plant in Saint-Laurent. Straddling the rural communities of La Ferté-Saint-Cyr and Saint-Laurent-Nouan, and barely fifteen kilometers from the castle of Chambord, it is therefore planned to open three golf courses of nine holes each, surrounded by 565 secondary houses , a palace and a string of equipment: equestrian center, conference center, swimming pool, fitness room, shops and restaurants.
The Domaine des Pommereaux is its name, aims to spread over 400 hectares “closed and guarded” including cattle pastures according to the file accompanying the public consultation which ends this Friday, October 14. If the entrepreneur Bernard Saunier, on the initiative, does not wish to reveal the names of his investor partners, he promises the creation of at least 220 jobs, at the very eye of a potential clientele of hunters, riders and golfers amateur . “A clientele with strong purchasing power, oriented towards local and local products”, specifies the market study.
collective awareness
During a public meeting on September 14, at the Ferté-Saint-Cyr communal room, Mr. Saunier estimated herself flawless on the environment, faced with an audience who did not understand that we May consume 5,000 m3 of water per day for a golf course … on a territory a fortiori subject to watering restrictions. Mr. Saunier announced a more important reforestation than the deforestation expected to design the green. And relied on a recent impact study commissioned by him.
We read: “The disappearance of a breeding of 460 cattle, providing pollution equivalent to that of a city of nearly 5,000 inhabitants, can only have positive effects, especially on the quality of ‘Water flowing downstream of the site. “The regional environmental authority mission of Center-Val de Loire is less enthusiastic:” Its realization would lead to the abolition of very large areas of agricultural land, wooded areas but also areas wet on Natura 2000 site. “She even believes that the impact study in question” cannot be considered sufficient “.
On November 9, 2021, the prefect of Loir-et-Cher François Pesneau issued a favorable opinion “subject to reservations”, concerning the pre-agricultural collective compensation study, one of the stages leading to the realization of the project. Nicolas Orgelet, designer-pays, elected EELV in Blois and vice-president of the intercommunal union of the Blésoise agglomeration, which includes the municipalities covered by the project, intends to provoke a collective awareness in order to stop the costs: “in full Climate crisis, when the tablecloths are lowest, that biodiversity collapses, that we must share local agriculture, how to endorse a project reserved for luxury clientele disregarding all this? Create a golf course is even more unworthy in this period of imposed sobriety. “
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