What if you asked for a permit to plant vegetation near your home. We are not going to break the sidewalk ourselves to make a vegetable garden (even if it would actually be quite nice in absolute terms), but you are going to ask for authorization to plant and appropriate a small existing public space, near your home. YOU.
Is this what we see quite a bit in Paris in particular, below the trees?
Exactly, and when it is set up it is a real little square to green which is made available to you. I don’t know if you’ve ever paid attention, but certain spaces that have benefited from a greening permit are works of plant art… With local residents taking care of them.
In Paris, for any project, it is required to be formed into a collective: an association, a neighborhood council, an educational or extracurricular establishment, a business, a company or a group of at least 5 local residents.
Then you have to do a request to the town hall which can authorize you to plant on an existing space of land, a creation by removing a small space from the sidewalk by city services or the installation of a bin. Of course this will be done taking into account all urban constraints.
That’s for Paris, but other cities in the Region issue greening permits?
Yes, it’s true and you may not even know it, so check with your town hall.
In Fontainebleau for example, the permit to plant allows residents of the town, traders and Bellifontaine associations to garden and maintain free of charge a plot of the town’s communal public space, in the ground, at the base of a tree or in pots/planters, for a period of time 3 years old.
In Bois-Colombes, the city allows residents, or people working in Bois-Colombes, to plant flowers and shrubs in areas identified as “free” in public space.
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