The PEANP des jalles, or Perimeter for the protection and development of peri-urban agricultural and natural areas, must evolve in the coming years. Tuesday, November 5 in Haillan, the Department of Gironde, competent in the matter, and Bordeaux Métropole, facilitator of the PEANP, presented the outlines of the new lands to be integrated, as well as the associated action program.
The extension of the PEANP will ultimately involve eight municipalities instead of six to date.
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Let's start from what already exists. The current PEANP dates from 2012. It covers six municipalities in the Jalles valley (Eysines, Le Taillan-Médoc, Le Haillan, Blanquefort, Bruges and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles) and 785 hectares. Two entities stand out: the site of the sources of Thil and Gamarde to the west and the market garden valley to the east. In both cases, access and preservation of water resources play a central role.
Archives Bertrand Lapègue
One of the axes of the PEANP is to promote short circuit agricultural production.
In one piece for the moment, this PEANP must be enriched with geographically dispersed plots. In the future, it will no longer concern six but eight municipalities, with Parempuyre and Bordeaux joining the club.
Golf of Bordeaux
In January 2021, the steering committee validated a study area of 3,250 hectares for the extension. Nearly four years of consultation later with local stakeholders, the envisaged enlargement finally covers 871 hectares, mainly public land (67%). We will have to wait for the public inquiry scheduled for spring 2025 to validate this version, the implementation of this revised PEANP being planned for 2026. Clearly, nothing is certain at this stage.
Olivier Delhoumeau
The public meeting was held Tuesday, November 5 at the Forum room, in Haillan.
What can we find in the negotiated area? Bordeaux has integrated 322 hectares including the Barails ecological reserve (biodiversity preservation site) and the golf course. Parempuyre has reduced the sail to the Marais d'Olives (with cattle breeding). In Bruges, these are public plots on the outskirts and in the marsh nature reserve. Blanquefort has invested in plots of land dedicated to sheep farming, as well as a former gravel pit in the agricultural reconversion project. Le Haillan (96 hectares) and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles (180 hectares) stand out by integrating almost exclusively private areas. The market gardening vocation is affirmed. The elected representative of Saint-Médard, Pascal Tartary, thus mentioned the ambition to revive 180 hectares of agricultural land in connection with the project to renovate the central kitchen with a view to offering more local supply.
Right of pre-emption
In turn, Patrick Papadato, vice-president of Bordeaux Métropole in charge of the nature-biodiversity-food resilience strategy, and Stéphane Le Bot, vice-president of the Department in charge of agriculture and food, recalled the challenges of the PEANP: “It is a question of promoting agricultural and natural plots in a context of land pressure. This tool gives a right of pre-emption to the Department which can act in the event of a sale. This ensures the continuity of agricultural activity and accessible land. »
Take all the farmers of Haillan, Blanquefort, Eysines, they are dying today”
“How can we talk about pre-emption today, knowing that there is less and less public money. With what means will the Department purchase? » launched a farmer at a public meeting. “Pre-emption is a possibility, not an obligation,” clarified Stéphane Le Bot, adding that aid to farmers may indeed be increasingly constrained. Notably “because the State is picking the pockets of communities via the government’s savings plan”.
Cries of the heart
The action program attached to the expanded PEANP will bring together several partners (Bordeaux Métropole, Department, Chamber of Agriculture, municipalities) on specific areas of work: defense of local agriculture respectful of biodiversity, installation of new farmers, fight against against land speculation and land artificialization.
Laudable intentions which often clashed Tuesday evening with the cries of the heart of the operators present in the public. “Take all the farmers of Haillan, Blanquefort, Eysines, they are dying today,” lamented one of them. Climate disruption, insufficient local outlets, unremunerative prices, animal damage (coypu, deer, etc.) to crops, reluctance of banks, poorly maintained yards, floods linked to urbanization, ecological compensation on arable land, everything has happened. . “Putting young people in this context is not serious. They will drink the broth after six months,” deplored Philippe and Floriane Laville in one voice. “It’s true, the situation is tough. The difficulty is national and European, recognizes Patrick Papadato. Most farmers are reaching retirement age and we have problems maintaining an activity. But to try to stop this trend, we need to maintain agricultural land. »
