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The local intercommunal urban planning plan kept elected officials busy during the last community council.
The last community council of Haute Ariège (CCHA) of the year 2025 was held in Ax-les-Thermes before New Year's Eve. The PLUIh (Local Intercommunal Urban Planning Plan serving as a local housing program) and the policy in favor of permanent housing were the essential points of the agenda. The documents which will be presented during the four public meetings organized in January 2025, as part of the procedure for developing the PLUIh, were examined and adopted. These will be the last steps prior to stopping the PLUIh that the president will propose to approve during a session scheduled for February 20, after the presentation of the PLUIh project, in particular the zoning and the written regulations, during a community council set for January 30, indicated president Alain Naudy. The PLUIh will then enter its administrative phase with the collection of opinions from the municipalities and organizations concerned. A public inquiry will also be organized during the summer of 2025, followed, according to the forecast timetable, by approval of the PLUIh at the end of 2025.
“Consider the future of our budgets more calmly”
The president underlined the importance of this long process initiated since 2019, to succeed in the permanent housing policy and specified: “Our ambitious policy in its favor will only succeed if we achieve the adoption of this PLUIh at the end of year. In a PLUih like ours, there will be no H [Habitat] if there is no RAIN [Plan local d’urbanisme intercommunal] », Specified the president. And in this area of permanent housing, all the measures adopted since last summer are active and suggest the achievement of the ambitious objectives nourished by the CCHA, he added. Financial aid of €36,000 was voted in favor of the operator Alogea, which is building nine social housing units in Luzenac, supplemented by €144,000 allocated by the municipality. Similar projects are currently being studied in Cabannes and Ax. Elected officials also approved the first “housing” competition funds to help with the renovation of municipal housing (8 in total) in Albiès, L'Hospitalet and Mérens, i.e. €213,938 for a total cost of work of around €786,000. €. The first aid to private owners under the OPAH should come soon. The president insisted on the need for financial incentives to reverse the demographic trend in the territory. He also spoke of the budgetary challenges ahead for 2025, hoping that the new government will not penalize communities too much “in order to consider the future of our budgets more calmly”.
