the controversial project will see the light of day in 2025

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Leaning, surrounded by ribbons, the sign at the entrance to the Cote rouge subdivision in Brionne (Eure) gives the impression of being able to collapse at the first gust of wind, after having been damaged last summer. The program displayed there is no longer current in any case.

The marketing of the plots resulted in failure and only six were sold to individuals between 2017 and April 2024 out of the 21 available. In order to avoid a financial quagmire, the municipality decided to transfer the land to a real estate developerthe CGM company, associated with a social landlordSiemor (Oissel region mixed economy real estate company), both located in Seine-Maritime.

Pavilions and small buildings

The sales agreement was signed and the work should start at the beginning of 2025. After the submission of a planning permission overall, several building permit are currently being examined by the services of the City of Brionne.

And if we remember the initial declarations, it is clear that the project has evolved in recent weeks. There is no longer any question of only building suburban housing, contrary to what Valéry Beuriot announced in March and April 2024.

Most of 32 accommodations will indeed be houses with gardens, some being semi-detached at the garage level, but there will also be “small buildings”, agrees the mayor of Brionne, in response to our newspaper. He mentions “an inflection” due to a surface area different from that initially planned.

Indeed, among the fifteen plotstwo were acquired by neighboring owners. The remaining space is therefore more restricted “hence the need to densify », confirms Valéry Beuriot, knowing that the City has chosen to add to the program an area of ​​1,000 m² in the extension of the subdivision, where it has a land reserve of 5 hectares.

You have to adapt. The construction sector is not doing very well. Finding investors in the current situation is not easy and it is complicated for them with the rising cost of materials.

The objective pursued in 2017, that of allowing Brionnais to build on plots sold at attractive prices, was not achieved.

The mayor sees it the effects of the economic situationthe difficulty of accessing bank credit, when others consider that the advertising has been insufficient to promote this subdivision located in a green setting, but difficult to access and landlocked.

The 32 expected social housing units “will meet the needs in terms of rental supply,” he said. And two of them will allow tenants to become owners thanks to the rental-ownership social loan system (PLSA).

“The interest is to increase the population of Brionne with quality programs,” considers Valéry Beuriot.

Residents have “let go”

The change in the nature of the project had prompted harsh debates in the municipal council between the mayor and his opponents. “The owners who had their houses built were fooled,” declared in particular Martine Goetheyn in spring 2024, convinced that their quality of life will be impacted by the massive presence of new housing.

In May, local residents unanimously expressed their discontent in our columns. But seven months later, the mobilization has ebbed. And the feeling that it will be impossible to push back the town hall has prevailed.

“Everyone has given up and no one will go to court to file an appeal,” notes Daniel Allegrettiarrived there four years ago with his family. He is one of two owners who acquired a plot to enlarge their land.

“It’s a purchase that I hadn’t planned on. Rather than a new car, I bought peace of mind,” he confides, regretting the absence of meeting with the real estate developer. The City also did not organize a consultation meeting this fall.

“That’s not what we were told at the start”

While his wife consulted the building permits, Daniel Allegretti says he is satisfied with the respect of a minimum distance of three meters on the property line between the houses and the future pavilions. But he regrets having discovered the presence of two-story buildings containing several apartments.

Even if it is not 30 m high, it is still collective housing, it is no longer the same perspective. That's not what we were initially told. We understood that there would only be small houses…

Valéry Beuriot wants to be reassuring on future cohabitation and draws on the example of the neighborhood located a little further down the valley: “It's a program that we launched in 2007. There are owners and tenants of social housing, and that don't worry. »

“A financially white operation”

The sale of the 13 plots should bring in €505,000 to the City of Brionnewhich had originally invested €600,000 in order to develop the land. By counting the road work carried out over the following years, plus the loan interest, “it will be a sham operation,” says Valéry Beuriot. We didn’t make a profit, but we didn’t lose any money.”

The financial statement should be presented to the municipal council in February.

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