Two disputed projects, a logistics platform and a giant golf course, await a decision of the state representative.
by Jordan Pouille (Blois, regional correspondent)
How to trace its route, between projects defended by local elected officials, often in the name of employment, and environmental protection movement or heritage, more and more organized? The recent launch of Marie Lajus, prefect of Indre-et-Loire, who gradually put himself on the back of elected officials, illustrates the exercise with which a number of prefects are confronted.
The month of February 2023 will thus be crucial for Solognote and memorable biodiversity for the prefect of Loir-et-Cher. On the one hand, Lamotte-Beuvron, paradise of hunters and walkers, could accommodate the site of a large logistics warehouse, near a college and by the destruction of a 16 hectare forest. And, on the other, the wooded town of La Ferté-Saint-Cyr could give way to luxury tourist complex composed of 565 villas and a 160 hectare golf course. The limits to take a prefectural decree – agreement or refusal – are February 4 for the platform and February 17 for the so -called “applereaux” golf course.
In recent months, these two projects have experienced their lots of Sunday events and heckled public public meetings. Each time, the agents of the territorial intelligence services were there to go up the information to the prefect François Pesneau, already aware of popular opinions expressed during public inquiries.
Legalist residents
Director General of Lamotte-Beuvron services for twenty years, François Eliet, young retiree, created an association of residents to oppose the platform project: “We are not the type to be linked Around the trees. We prefer to use all the legal tools available. “Until providing dozens of argued opinions to the investigating commissioner, including that of a pulmonologist specializing in the impact of fine particles emitted by trucks.
The public inquiry ended in November with a negative opinion. But the vigilance of Mr. Eliet remains intact: “If it is reasonable, the prefect should follow the opinion. Afterwards, we will have to be interested in the Scot [territorial coherence diagram] of the Grande Sologne, an important document which will be voted in June 2023 and on which the future PLUI will depend [Local intercommunal urban plan] and therefore the use of land. “
Faced with these legalist residents, the prefect also sees the traditional positions of elected officials evolving – jobs weigh less in the face of ecological concerns – and projects defended by municipalities do not be a level above. The Departmental Council of Loir-et-Cher, majority various right, voted, on October 24, against the unanimous golf project of the groups. A project which however received a favorable opinion from the public inquiry.
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