Mayors impose quality criteria for construction of new housing

The Nice-Côte d’Azur metropolis has adopted a repository to avoid habitat degradation.

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In front of the mediocrity and standardization of the production of new housing, more and more mayors of important cities put pressure on the promoters so that they improve the quality. Among them, there are, of course, ecologists, from the June 2020 wave, in Bordeaux, Tours, Strasbourg or Lyon, who wish to print their environmental brand. But the right elected officials, usually reluctant to supervise the market, are also tagged, like those of the Nice-Côte d’Azur metropolis, which comes on December 16, to adopt its “repository of the quality of construction. housing and living environment “.

“Repetition confines have highlighted the inadequacy of recently built housing and the needs of their occupants”, estimates Anthony Boré, Vice-President of the Métropole and First Deputy Mayor (Republicans) of Nice, charged Housing, urban renovation, city policy and security, a vast portfolio. “I have noticed that, since the 1980s, the size of the housing has lost, on average, 10 m 2 , that the open kitchen has become systematic and that the mono-oriented housings are too frequent” , emphasizes the elected official.

Rooms Too small, kitchens nonexistent

m. Boré does not hide that the quality rules included in the future intercommunal planning plan, therefore opposable, will apply to all new, private and social housing, with room for maneuver for operations of less than ten homes. The Charter imposes a minimum area of ​​30 m 2 for a studio, 45 m 2 for a two-piece, 65 m 2 for a three -Parts, 79 m 2 for a four-room and 96 m 2 for a five-room. The kitchens must, from T3, be separable; Each room must accommodate two beds and storage spaces; An office or office area must be integrated into the apartment. An outdoor area, balcony, terrace, loggia, garden “large enough, at least 1.5 meters wide” must be provided, as well as common areas and gardens to share.

Finally, each apartment, from the T3, must be multi-oriented and the well-protected building of noise and heat thanks to, in particular, to weapons with high inertia and vegetable barriers including a “vegetable charter” coming will specify the recommended species. “I was directly inspired by the work of the mission on the quality of housing, led by the architect François Leclercq and Laurent Girometti,” says Mr. Boré. The Girometti-Leclercq report was delivered on 6 September to the Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, and his recommendations are included in a repository that will prevail to the new purchased properties in the full-rate tax scheme called Pinel +, from the 1 er January 2023.

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