Wednesday, April 16, Bernard Magescas, vice-president in charge of regional planning at the community of communes of the Pays d’Orthe and Arrigans, assisted by Xavier Som, head of the town planning service, and Camille Larrère, technician of the service, presented one of the last phases of the calendar of development of the territorial coherence scheme (SCOT) before the public inquiry which will open the end of 2025. Since its prescription in 2020, the project has been built on a methodology until the definition of an orientation and objectives document, the object of this presentation.
4,000 more inhabitants
The process of co -construction with municipal elected officials and territorial actors has relied on 30 working sessions since 2022, workshops, commissions, meetings with the services of the State and the Region, and technical partners. Clearly, the SCOT will initiate regional planning and its living area for the next twenty years and directly influence the local urban plans (PLU) themselves in the PLUI (Intercommunal) as well as on the Air Energy Air Plan (PCAET) according to national regulations.
Covering the sectors of housing, economic activity, mobility, biodiversity, landscapes, territorial functioning, ecological transition, regional planning will have to take into account a national directive, Zan (zero net artificialization), by 2050, and already, there would only be around 150 hectares until 2031 to dedicate to housing, economic activity and equipment.
It will however be necessary to find land for a forecast of 4,000 additional inhabitants by 2045 by imagining a model promoting living together (division of the building, densification, reconquest of wasteland, extension in continuity, etc.). Because there is therefore a need for 3,700 more dwellings, including 1,500 for household loosening and 2,200 for new arrivals, knowing that the occupancy rate will go from 2.3 people per housing to 1.9 and that the population must be taken into account.
