Friday January 17, in the presence of sub-prefect Dominique Peurière and departmental councilor Dominique Coutière, neighboring mayors and senior and young municipal councils, mayor François Hubert announced with humor that with 2021 inhabitants in 2024, Roquefort exceeds the bar of 2,000 inhabitants for the first time since 1975. “This passage has a strong symbolic value: up to 2,000, a commune is called a village and beyond that, it is a city. »
A wink illustrating the good atmosphere reigning at this ceremony which, last year, was gloomy with the announced departure of the two doctors. Thanks to “the very proactive policy” of the Community of Municipalities (200,000 euros per year for the health policy), two doctors arrived: Maria Angeles Acosta and Gatien Andron, present this Friday.
Accommodation
Demography does not go without housing policy, the mayor gave an update on the Small Town of Tomorrow program, the main objective of which is to revitalize the city center. The renovation of the medieval castle town was associated with an Opah (planned housing improvement operation), which will begin to bear fruit in March, with the delivery of the first three housing units on rue Gambetta. A facade plan is added for five houses (five others are planned). In this fight against poor housing, XL Habitat completed eight homes on Chemin Bas de Haut, before building 16 others on Rue des Tonneliers. The Couloumès and Cordeliers projects should also start, rehabilitations without consumption of natural, agricultural or forest areas, the Achilles heel of the future local intercommunal urban planning plan.
-Commerce also favors the installation in the town center, three have been opened (including the Fresquet bakery) and as many are expected in 2025, thanks to the support of the Community of Communes of Landes d'Armagnac (19,000 euros paid to eleven of between them). François Hubert also renewed his support for community life, without avoiding the big problem of the rugby stands and locker rooms. After highlighting “the municipality's debt, which has been high for a long time”, he announced that 2025 would be marked by austerity.
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