Change with the new intercommunity PLU of Est Cotentin

Five years ago, the prefect of Manche wanted a global local intercommunity urban planning plan (PLUi) for the department. We managed to have a PLUi adapted to each territory, corresponding to geographical situationsunderlines Olivier de Boursetty, delegate in charge of sustainable regional planning. We obtained a prefectural exemption to make seven PLUi within the Cotentin Agglomeration, on the condition of creating a coherence committee so that they are compatible. The Eastern Cotentin PLUi concerns the former community territories of Saint-Pierre-Eglise, Val-de-Saire and Montebourg.

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In order to establish this, a study was launched in 2023 with the establishment of a diagnosis. October 2024 was chosen to present the progress of the project in some municipalities. “We present the second phase which concerns the planning and sustainable development project as well as the major urbanization choices to come”continues Olivier de Boursetty. The final map should be presented in detail at the end of 2025, as well as town planning regulations”.

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Reasoned urbanization

Responsible for the urban planning project at the agglomeration, Élise Jouault discusses the future PLUi. If no planning document is modified, in 2028, no planning authorization can be issued. This new PLUi will concern all municipalities, regardless of the urban plan they have put in place. This unique document seems to reduce the buildable areas in Eastern Cotentin. With the ZAN law (zero net artificialization), the objective is to reduce urbanization by 50% and to no longer create building land by 2025. The PLUi will result in a map where each municipality will have its area defined for urbanization.

Each municipality will have its defined number of buildings. We correlate the density of its population with its development according to the basis already established by the territorial coherence scheme (Scot) continues Élise Jouault. A small municipality will thus be authorized to urbanize around 5,000 ha. In a village, construction can only be carried out on land of less than 650 m² and less than 500 m² in a municipality such as Saint-Pierre-Eglise. Cities like Cherbourg and Valognes will benefit from more surface area to be urbanized. It's a story of fairness. The goal, zero urbanization in 2050”, concludes Eloise Jouault.