Those of course of the residents whose homes are located within the perimeter of the project. But also those of professional fishermen who still have one or more storage cellars and who fear being dispossessed of them in the long term.
First preemptions
Their voice was represented last Thursday evening in the multipurpose space by the experienced Battit Lahetjuzan. In an interview given the same day to “Sud Ouest”, the Cibourian fisherman was moved on behalf of the dozen or so cellar owners still active in the port to have never yet been contacted on this subject. The tension is all the greater as the first two cellars, put up for sale, have already been pre-empted by EPFL.
Battit Lahetjuzan reports transactions around 50,000 euros, around 30% below the prices of the last sales made between individuals. “Beyond the price, what worries us, if we are not offered an equivalent location as part of this rehabilitation, is that it will not be possible to find a space of the same size elsewhere,” says he.
To have a premises of 45 square meters at the pre-emption price, you must go at least as far as Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx
To better convince the fisherman, he notes an offer for a garage of only 17 m² in the neighboring Red Cross district, for 45,000 euros. “I had fun looking at leboncoin.fr. To have a premises of 45 square meters at the pre-emption price, you have to go at least as far as Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx,” he notes, calling for a rehousing solution, as close as possible to the port. fishing.
“Not just fishermen”
Battit Lahetjuzan, who, like everyone else, hoped to pass on this heritage to subsequent generations, where they could earn additional income for their retirement, speaks on behalf of the fishermen, but he does not forget the other owners, individuals and professionals. “Historically, it was done for fishermen. The cellars were transmitted at the same time as the boats. But over time, these cellars have been resold and today, we have to see the number of professionals who work there,” he warns.
Sold over time to individuals, many of the cellars are now used as garages. Particularly those on avenue Gabriel-Delaunay.
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If many cellars have been transformed into car (or boat) garages or storage spaces by the fishermen themselves, by individuals or by traders, several craftsmen have actually established themselves there, more or less in the nails. The co-ownership of 35 cellars, located between the body shop and the car garage, includes carpenters, electricians, plasterers, a tiler, a building painter and even seamstresses.
Other cellars at Untxin
Asked about the future of these cellars, and therefore of these professionals, the mayor of Ciboure first responds that a rehousing path (already exposed in Battit Lahetjuzan) for the last active fishermen could be considered at the level of the cellars of the 'Untxin, in Socoa. Eneko Aldana-Douat also and above all says that the Auction project brings with it “the desire to maintain a balance between housing, businesses and economic activity”.
The first elected official from Cibour explains that economic concerns, the area of competence of the Agglomeration, already took place in the spring through a first census of businesses and activities present in the district. He mentions relocations of companies to other areas of activity already completed and others in the process of being done. “These activities still need to be declared,” he slips.
“Lace work”
Coming back to the fishermen, it does not completely exclude the possibility of integrating spaces dedicated to them in the future project. “In the same way that we will perhaps retain architectural elements which recall the history of this district, we will have to ask ourselves the question. As I have already said several times, it’s going to be a painstaking process,” he says.
