By Valentin Machard
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May 7, 24 at 7:42 p.m.
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A public meeting Tuesday April 30, 2024 brought together around a hundred people The Pesse. This village of 300 inhabitants in the Haut-Juranear Saint-Claude, wants to build a ecohamlet in its center. For elected officials, this project must make it possible to respond to the attractiveness issues and of dynamism of the village. A project that interested residentsAlso curious that interrogatives.
Proof of the interest and curiosity of the inhabitants of La Pesse, around a hundred of them this Tuesday, April 30 attended the public meeting on the ecohamlet project in the village center, while the organizers were only waiting for a quarantine of interested parties.
What is an “ecohamlet”?
In front of them, standing on stage and microphone in hand, Mylène Le Gacemployee of the Hameaux Légers association which encourages the creation of these ecohamlets and who follows a thirty of projects in France since 2019.
“The light hamlet is a common land made available to a collective of inhabitants [NDLR. réunis dans une association loi 1901] via a long-term lease. The inhabitants are owners of their individual habitat and manage common spaces together via their association,” summarizes Mylène Le Gac.
Concretely, to join this ecohamlet, each resident will have to have their own tiny house, trailer, yurt, dome (for example), and live there eight months a yearjoin the ecohamlet association and pay a monthly rent of 150 euros to the municipality.
What is the ecohamlet project?
The idea of ecohamlets is to live collectively with a very low environmental impact. The land of approximately 12,500 square meters in La Pesse should allow the installation of fourteen homes of 45 square meters maximum and land of 200 square meters per inhabitant. But the essential point is that no home can have dug foundations. They are all removable and transportable.
For residents, it also facilitates access to ownership of ecological homes. The homes are worth between 15,000 and 80,000 euros.
The inhabitants of the ecohamlet will form an association, to facilitate collective life, but also to carry out projects in the region. In Brittany, the inhabitants of an eco-hamlet have brought new life to an abandoned bar, which has become a third cultural venue.
Curious locals
If a thirty of people present at the meeting are really interested in joining the project, the rest of the room mainly comes to discover the project out of curiosity. This is particularly the case for these two residents:
“I am enough convinced of the system and the need for housing and habitats to which it responds, but I am just skeptical of the type of collective that it can bring”, testifies Agathe, before wondering: “What type of people will attract this collective of inhabitants ? Will they participate in local life? How it’s going to be managed collectively so that it is harmonious? »
Another resident, Claudia, adds: “It must not become a closed thing, where they live among themselves and without us. These projects are very cool! But I ask to see. »
Strong demand for housing of this type
This ecohamlet project quickly interested the town hall of La Pesse, a village of 300 inhabitants in Haut-Jura where the price of real estate land fly away due to the proximity to Switzerland and where the second homes multiply.
“We have this question of access to housing to resolve, and the municipality has enough few levers. We are not in a ‘tensioned area’, so we cannot play on the tax on second homes. We renovate homes, we tinker, but we are quite helpless,” confides Claude Merciermayor of La Pesse.
“We were regularly contacted by individuals who wanted to settle here in this type of habitat and we wanted to respond. We were interested in the Hameau Léger association and found it relevant to choose it to support us. » Support which should continue until the project is completed, expected in 2026.
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