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The elected officials of Greater Villeneuvois ratified, Thursday evening, the implementation agreement with the Public Land Establishment of Nouvelle Aquitaine for the project to requalify the site of the former hospital in the heart of a bastide.
An important day for the reconversion of the historic building in the center of Villeneuvois, abandoned for 10 years and the opening of the Villeneuvois health center. The former Saint-Cyr hospital has been in the sights of the Greater Villeneuvois conurbation for several months. Objective: to revive this wasteland just a stone’s throw from the center of the bastide. Its president Guillaume Lepers had already mentioned it during the last community meetings, the project is similar to “Everest”. But this mountain could well be crossed faster than elected officials thought.
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“A model project for Lot-et-Garonne”
In the morning, the first half of the match was played at Villeneuve town hall. The file is being led by Cathy Lévêque and Pascal Mourgues. The two elected officials carried out the first steps with the help of the public land establishment of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. They followed the guideline mentioned by Guillaume Lepers: “working in a place dedicated to youth, training and culture. »
The first milestones of the project include moving the Villeneuve-sur-Lot campus there “which is developing at great speed”, creating an amphitheater and a reception room, developing a media library and accommodate student accommodation there. Around the table during this first steering committee, the State, the departmental and regional authorities, who welcomed the ongoing reflection. “We scored points” welcomed the president of Grand Villeneuvois, who believes that “the project is a model for Lot-et-Garonne”. The studies have been launched, the priorities established, but the excavators are not yet close to arriving either.
Priority: secure the site
With the joint work of the Public Land Establishment, the first step will be the acquisition of the building. Property of the Villeneuvois hospital, and therefore of the Regional Health Agency, negotiations are underway. “We should be owners within a few months,” says the Grand Villeneuvois cautiously. Things are not simple – especially in terms of price – with the ARS…
Different phases are planned in the file presented to the steering committee. Their implementations are calibrated until… 2029. “Everything is not going to be done at once” tempers President Lepers. “The priority is to secure this site,” he says. Weakened by this decade of vacancy, looting but also the fire which ravaged the west wing of the building, the work promises to be colossal. “But I could almost tell you that it’s on. At least it’s on track! “. A “life brought back to Saint-Cyr” which should also benefit the center of Villeneuve “This life brought back to the Saint-Cyr site” should also benefit the economy of the heart of the bastide. If it is only with summer concerts in the park for the moment, we can say that a dynamic is gradually establishing itself on this Villeneuve monument.
