Mauron (Morbihan). The orientations of the new local urban plan

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For elected officials, this revision work is also the obligation to bring local requirements into compliance with the climate and resilience law and the SCoT: territorial coherence plan. Meeting with Gérard Reynaud, deputy delegate for town planning and Stéphane Decressonnière, head of the town planning department of the Mauron community.

What is a PLU?

An urban planning document which must reflect the challenges of the municipality and put them into perspective of the political will of elected officials.

How often do we review it?

When we consider that it is outdated. The old PLU dates from 2007 and has undergone two marginal modifications. It was necessary to revise it, so the municipal council decided on this prescription during its deliberation on January 26.

Who are the people working on this revision?

The mayor, myself in charge of town planning with the service led by Stéphane Decressonnière, the general director of services Camille Michel, the head of technical services Julien Jourdon, and all the people in the community of the commune. We work with the Ys workshop run by Fabien Jaffré.

How many work sessions have you completed since January?

Eighteen in total, more than one per month. Each session lasts approximately two and a half hours. The amount of work carried out since January is considerable. We hope to complete it towards the end of 2025. But we are already a little behind schedule. In fact, this delay is a good thing, to avoid haste on the one hand and omissions on the other. At the same time, time is given to associated public figures to take ownership of the working documents and comment on them.

Does the contributions box work?

It allowed us to receive eighteen applications and that’s frankly a good turnout.

Do contributors think about their assets first?

We might have thought that it was more personal interest in fact, and we have to deal with that and the obligations of the climate and resilience law. We had a meeting on Tuesday, November 5 where the contributors were able to meet the head of the Ys workshop who is supporting us in this revision. Around fifteen contributors came in groups of two, three or more. They were received individually to present their grievances.

How will you take these complaints into account?

With the greatest kindness, and the desire to be educational. We need to explain to people the issues related to the regulations. Regulations which also apply to supra-municipal documents such as the regional plan for planning, sustainable development and territorial equality (SRADDET), or the SCoT. Our new PLU must be compatible with these documents. Then, the public inquiry will have a variable duration to take into account these different elements: those of the PLU and the elements which compose it, in particular the perimeter of the surroundings and the sanitation zoning.

What are these perimeters?

Today, we have a church with a listed portal. This generates the perimeter of 500 meters. However, I wanted consistency in decision-making on projects located within the 500 m perimeter and to be consistent for all future decisions and to know why we are defending this decision. With the protection of the surrounding areas, we constitute a public utility easement and we clarify the decisions that can be taken depending on the buildings and overall the entire building which forms a coherent whole with a historic monument.

How does this translate for the municipality?

The idea is to follow this approach and redefine a more restricted perimeter than that of 500 m. We then no longer speak of a circumference, but we start from the nearby streets where remarkable buildings are erected, and we stop at the land register which has its origins in 1820: the Napoleonic land register. I must say a big thank you to the architect of the buildings of France Laure d'Hauteville who came on site with her technician Aurore Hasquin. She left us her intern Anaïs Tissier, who under the leadership of the DRAC, has carried out tremendous work on the history of Mauron since its creation, with an in-depth study composing the historic center of the town which dates from around 1152. This architectural analysis is a wonderful working document.

What will actually change?

What is concrete now is that outside the urban area, there will no longer be any buildable land for housing, with the exception of farm managers for farmers. We are diversifying our objectives, in line with the planning and sustainable development project (PADD).

Can you say what the orientations of the new PLU are at this stage?

There are five of them. We aim to welcome new residents. We will support local professional activities and preserve agricultural activity. Our commune has nearly fifty farms and 38 farmers were present at the meeting on the PLU. We want to strengthen the living environment, ensure the protection of biodiversity and also we want to identify and maintain the built and landscape heritage.

How much does PLU revision cost?

We have voted for a budget of €49,320 to support the Ys workshop, but this risks overflowing, because there will be more working sessions. To which must be added the cost of public inquiries.

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