In this commune of Loire-Atlantique, the demolition of the presbytery does not please everyone

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The license to demolition of the presbytery has just been delivered. THE bulldozers will enter in action during the winter vacation 2025. In accordance with the scenario adopted within the framework of the restructuring of public school, voted last February by the municipal council.

This school redevelopment project is linked to its obsolescence :

It no longer offers optimal conditions for the teaching team and its students (old building, cramped spaces, energy loss, etc.).

She has been repeating it since the previous mandate. It plans an investment of 5 million euros.

The financial argument put forward

In connection with a of programsthe elected officials chose, among the three proposed, the scenario in which the heritage element built 150 years ago was razed.

Because the analysis revealed that the rehabilitation of the building was impossible, due to significant additional costs (editor's note: 900,000 euros) and technical uncertainties linked to its condition

She assures not having made the decision alone. “It was concerted. The teaching team, school staff, parents and library volunteers were involved.”

But not the Boussay heritage defense association through the ages. Who received a letter at the start of the school year announcing this destruction. A letter which generated a request for a meeting at the town hall from the office for further explanations.

We were presented with a fait accompli. It was folded. We didn't have any more proof than that. Apart from the financial argument.

Volunteers who then placed a sign denouncing this decision in front of the place.

She stayed there for about fifteen days before being kidnapped.

The association had arranged to meet its members on site, during the monthly office of elected officials mid-October. And gathering who brought together about twenty of them but also some citizens who, unaware of the subject before the call for mobilization widely broadcast on social networks, are venus s’informer.

A tense meeting

A rather stormy meetingOr some citizens openly attacked the six elected officials present.

And group of city council representatives who recalled the arguments and the path which had been theirs. But who were also confronted with ” their lack of communication on the subject » and who got a little « lost in their health justification for not wanting to keep a two-story school ».

Considering the amplification of the controversythe association has decided to no longer raise the subject. However, even if it is ratified, the file will be the subject of a presentation at a public meeting by the end of the year. There municipality is committed to this. Some Abta members will be sure to attend.

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