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Victoria Allaume
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Nov. 1 2024 at 12:00
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From Saturday October 7 to Friday October 20, 2023, a citizen consultation, proposing several plans for the development of downtown Granville, was carried out among the residents of the town.
According to “the majority judgment method adopted”, it is the B scenario that wonalthough 31.9% of Granvillais rejected it.
This same scenario was voted on by the municipal council in April 2024despite the discontent displayed by several merchants in the town.
A break during the summer season so as not to disturb traders
According to Bastien Lemaile, road, networks and public lighting operation manager, “discussions took place with traders before validating the work project”.
And finally, phase 7 of the work, which was to take place from July to September 2025, was postponed from September to November 2025in order to not to disturb tourists during the summer season, and to ensure thatue the work has as little impact as possible on the turnover of the center's shops.
The one who is also project manager of the city center works, also assures, “that a compensation commission is being set up”, in order to imagine potential compensation for impacted traders, “and Newsletters will be distributed to notify them of the progress of the work.
Focus on phases 1 and 2: rue du Boscq and cours Jonville
This work in the city center began last October, and are expected to end in November 2025. They are divided into several phases, the first, concerning the development of the rue du Boscq crossroads, “to ensure continuity with the development of Val Es Fleur (concrete, asphalt, roads, etc.)”, having already been completed.
Phase 2, focused on Cours Jonville north, has already started, and should end in February-March 2025. “The borders have been removed and the asphalt has been planed to carry out the earthworks and pass the networks”. “The war memorial (currently Place du Général-de-Gaulle) will be removed after November 11, and will be restored before moving to its new location”, on the esplanade, at the northern part of Cours Jonville.
A place where “it will be highlighted”, and which is accessible to people with reduced mobility (PRM). This move also aims to improve user safety, which posed a problem, particularly during the Carnival confetti battle.
During the work, the city center bus stop is shifted by 50 meters, and is located “at the Place du Général-de-Gaulle, where benches have been added”. However, it is not accessible to PRMs, who are invited to get off and on at the rue du Boscq stop.
Phases 3, 4 and 5: improve cohabitation between pedestrians, bicycles and cars
Phase 3 concerns Place du Général-de-Gaulle, where work will be carried out from January to May 2025. The aim being to “create a vast pedestrian/cycle space, partially wooded […] by diverting automobile traffic near the commercial activities of the square.”
Work on phases 4 (rue Paul-Poirier) and 5 (rue Lecampion) should begin and end in March 2025.
They will allow car access to the center, via Paul Poirier and Couraye streets. An access, “designed in a modular and reversible way, in order to favor the fluidity of traffic and the adaptation of its conditions to the pedestrian frequentation of this new public space”, we could read in the municipal magazine of September 2024.
More greenery in the La Poste car park
Phase 6 will focus on the Jonville South course, which will be under construction from March to June 2025.
The seventh and final phase will concern the Cour Chartier and La Poste car parks, which will be under construction from September to November 2025. A first redevelopment was carried out last September, with the definitive marking of the spaces in the car park of the Post (blue zone), and the creation of communication with the Chartier court.
This redevelopment will continue during phase 7, with “the installation of trees and a green space, as well as the marking of places on the Chartier courtyard”, explains the town hall.
Where will we be able to park?
Of the 147 spaces present in the Cour Chartier and La Poste car parks, there will only be 133 left in the end, but they will be compensated by the creation of spaces in the Fontaine Bedeau car park (at the La Cale bar, near the port).
On the latter, 90 free places have been added (including the 67 paid, removed, at Cours Jonville, and the 14 in the blue zone, which are no longer available at the Post Office), in the location formerly reserved for boat vehicles, which now no longer have the right to park there.
Delivery and minute stop places will be positioned on Cours Jonville and on Place Général de Gaulle to meet the “needs of customers of businesses and users of local public services”, we always find in the works file of the municipal magazine.
What about the Saturday market?
If you are from Granville, you probably know that the Saturday market has been moved to the Post Office parking lot since October 19, 2024.
However, after phase 6 (in June, if all goes well), the latter should reach its final location, at Cours Jonville and Place de Gaulle.
“Customers will be able to wander in complete safety from one business to another, with car traffic being suspended throughout the market from its opening until early afternoon.”
Reduced ecological impact
The objectives of the work in downtown Granville are multiple. They will “create peaceful cohabitation,” assured the mayor, Gilles Ménard.
Indeed, soft mobility will be favored and the setting will be more pleasant for pedestrians who stroll between the streets, and go shopping at local merchants, but for all that, motorists will still be able to drive in the hyper-center, or even park near the port, then reach the center on foot.
Among the other goals of the redevelopment, there is also the revegetation of the city, with, ultimately, 161 trees plantedand the de-waterproofing of part of the floors. “Moreover, the soils will be less carbon-containing since we will move, on multiple surfaces, from bitumen to granite rocks. The CO2 impact will be much better than if we had made a development similar to the previous one,” explains Marc Hameau, the deputy mayor, in charge of the Ecological Transition.
It remains to be seen whether the work schedule can be respected… But in any case, we can't wait to see what the new Granville town center will look like!
The estimated cost of the work excluding subsidies is €5,290,200. Follow the progress of the work on the site: www.ville-granville.fr/amenagement-du-centre-ville/
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