In addition to a drop in the value of his house, which he hopes to sell, the owner mentions a structural risk linked to the composition of the soil on the land where the antenna was built.
24 meters high, dozens of tons of concrete, and a view that this owner could have done without. In Triel-sur-Seine, in the Yvelines, a 5G antenna was built by the operator Bouygues on a plot of land at the end of the garden of Philippe Valette’s house.
But with this view on the antenna, the owner now deplores the fact that his house has lost all its value, even though he wanted to put it up for sale. “I was planning to retire to the south of France, I’m not going to be able to,” he explains on BFM Paris Île-de-France.
“I asked real estate agencies who told me ‘Sir, in the current state of affairs, given your house, it is no longer worth anything, because the people who could afford to buy this house will also have the means to go and buy elsewhere, without an antenna'”, Philippe says.
The town hall has “reached the end of its appeals”
The owner of the house does not intend to stop there, and hopes to see this antenna disappear. “I will fight, because this is all I have,” he says.
The Triel-sur-Seine town hall itself had opposed an initial building permit. A year ago, the mayor had also issued an order to suspend the work, in vain.
“We have reached the end of the appeals,” explains Cédric Aoun, mayor of Triel-sur-Seine. “We had offered other land to Bouygues, but unfortunately, we were not able to have satisfactory exchanges.”
Bouygues assures that it has taken precautions
According to Philippe Valette, the antenna does not only pose a problem in terms of view and value for his house: the owner assures that it is a question of the safety of the installations, the antenna being built on land partially classified as unbuildable by the General Inspection of Quarries.
“It’s dangerous because there’s a risk of collapse,” he says. “These are gypsum quarries that are vulnerable to water. They collapse very regularly around our home. There are sinkholes (local ground collapses, editor’s note) and people have died in them, so it’s not something to be taken lightly.”
Contacted by BFM Paris Île-de-France, the operator Bouygues assures that it has taken all the necessary precautions for the installation of this antenna. “For the establishment of this site, Bouygues Telecom has carried out a large drilling campaign on and around the installation area in order to avoid any possible risk.”
Local residents have decided to launch a petition to oppose the antenna being maintained.
Chloé Berthod, Fiona Unewisse with Laurène Rocheteau
