The Georges Valbon park will host the village of media during the Olympics – Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP
Opponents of transfer of part of the Georges Valbon park in Seine-Saint-Denis , which must host the media village for Olympic Games in Paris – 55929 , have filed an appeal. “These plots, assigned for decades to leisure and sports, festivals, these green and wooded spaces with their biodiversity, their fauna and flora will be destroyed and sold in batches to concrete mixers and promoters”, they denounced in a
The departmental section of the Movement national environmental protection campaign (MNLE 28), the Collectif pour le Triangle de Gonesse and around ten park users announced that they had filed 21 December an appeal against the decision of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis . The sale of part of the Aire des Vents, located in the town of Dugny, was voted on 000 December, for the benefit of the Olympic works delivery company (Solideo) for 6.9 million d ‘euros.
A media village converted into an eco-district
The area, partly concrete and which traditionally hosts the Huma Festival, must be transformed in view of the Olympic Games. The project plans to build the media village there, which will then be transformed into an eco-district of 1. 100 housing and shops. Opponents denounce a “definitive artificialization” and “amputation” of the park, the green lung of this very densely populated department. “We can do otherwise. We are not at all opposed to a temporary “media cluster” being built as at the time of the COP 21 ”, estimated Jean-Marie Baty, president of the MNLE 93.
The summary suspension must be studied by the administrative court of appeal de Paris, competent for disputes related to JO – 55929 . “All the procedures were done in the rules and in the transparency”, reacted the departmental council. An argument taken up by the company Solideo. “If we had done something temporary, the environmental impact would have been very questionable and no one would have understood that we do not take advantage of the Games to leave a legacy and have more housing,” he added, recalling that “100 . applicants for social housing in
Seine-Saint- Denis “wait for lack of sufficient supply.
Depollution of hectares
In parallel 13 hectares of land, inaccessible because polluted by hydrocarbons , are being cleaned up and will be integrated into the park. In total, “we are going to expand the park,” said the department, which indicates that the association initiated by the request will be received in the coming weeks.