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“I hope that your questions and comments will be numerous because the goal is to get you to participate in this project », begins Click Download to save Chhun-Na Lenglart mp3 youtube commayor of Villers-sur-Mer, launching his first neighborhood meeting since his election last July. “We wanted to innovate to have the opportunity to exchange with you.”
The majority of this first neighborhood meeting “devoted to the inhabitants of polling station number 1” was dedicated to natural and sports park project. A project launched in recent years by the municipal team of resigning mayor Thierry Granturco.
A more green sports complex
Tennis, football, pétanque, boxing, archery, badminton, judo, sambo… Between the historic center of the town and the Villers 2000 district, this sports complex welcomes within it multiple activities. The municipal team of the resigning mayor had made it one of the projects of the mandate, that of developing this place into a real natural and sports parkemphasizing the renaturalisation of the place.
The new team elected around Chhun-Na Lenglart retained the idea of the project… in wishing to make it evolveparticularly based on comments from residents.
This project was worked on for a certain period of time by the technical services, with a project manager, who is the culmination of professional reflections, with certain criteria which are not shared by the entire current municipal team. We are presenting it to you, it is a step that we would like to improve with your comments.
In broad terms, this still provisional project would be to make the sports complex a place still dedicated to sports practice, but also a place of passage, of stroll, of gentle connections. On the side of tennisif the central court as well as those located near the clubhouse would be preserved, three would be transformed into “all-weather” pitchesand others, some of which are “no longer used”, would be deleted. “Our concern is to allow tennis activity to last as long as possible, whatever the weather,” insists the mayor.
Other major equipment of the complex, the gymnasium would know renovation work. “The changing rooms and toilets are in a real state of disrepair, and there are asbestosso it will require a little heavy work,” specifies the councilor.
Beyond this equipment, the idea is really to create a natural park in the heart of the placein vegetalizingby creating a promenadebut also by imagining other developments with the renovation of the basketball court into a playing field basket 3×3the idea of installing games for children… “Why not complete it with ping-pong tables or table football, or even imagine a sort of clearing for gentle sports like Qi Gong or yogawhen the weather is nice,” adds the mayor, also specifying the municipality’s wish to build changing rooms for the players on the synthetic field. “The children who play on this field do not have a place to change and that is very problematic,” she notes.
Concerns for tennis courts
After the mayor’s presentation, time for discussion. “We said to ourselves: why only have our own ideas when you are here,” declares Chhun-Na Lenglart, launching the exchanges.
In the room, many practitioners of different sports spoke, particularly tennis players who notably shared their concern to see certain courts disappear. Former tennis treasurer for 15 years, a resident reacts:
Your project is not bad, but the three bottom lands that you keep are very regularly flooded while you remove the three in the middle, which are the best.
Like others, the practitioner is also worried about lack of indoor tennis courts. “We’re not bad at playing in the winter and we’re going to find ourselves without a court, because the other court is 90% used by the teachers for tennis school lessons.” Good coexistence of different sports associations which will take time. “There is a sharing of land to be done, that’s why we are taking the time for consultation,” replies the mayor, before imagining: “in a later phase, we could consider putting a fixed frame allowing the three terrains to be covered all-weather”.
Another equipment which generated debate, the gymnasium. “Should we not ask ourselves a question in the long term for this gymnasium which is quite oldand think about more surface area covered,” asks a resident. Deputy, Louis Ronssin replied: “The difficulty with this gymnasium is that it is asbestos-ridden, we are obliged to remove asbestos from the part we want to do, but we cannot touch the general structure which would still generate no more spending.”
A financial constraint who also brushed aside another resident’s idea of creating a sports hall. “That’s why we also wanted to talk to you about city stadium project which allows the practice of different sports and which is rather financed”, continue the elected officials, questioning the residents on the place where it could be located: at the sports complex, near the school or near the sea.
A layout to be refined
Among other remarks, some residents mentioned the arrangement of entrances and exits to the parkparticularly at Rue du Commerce, as well as the idea of connecting the south and north of the natural sports park with a path, avoiding residents having to go around. “With basketball players, tennis players, pétanque players, residents of future built housing estates, pedestrians, cyclists: are you going to be forced to review the roads and entrances,” asks a resident. Present in the room, the opposition advisor Romeo asked wonders for his part about the relevance of installing games for childrenrecalling that an area is already installed near the school and mentioning the “demographic problems” of the municipality. “We need to think about this playground, but elsewhere. We must keep this place for sport,” confirms a resident.
L’layout of the park and the choice in terms of infrastructure therefore remain at refine…and a balance also remains to be found between the numerous sports associations that use the premises, particularly within the gymnasium. An “essential” point for the mayor who notes: “At the end of 2021, boxing was invited to Villers and it has become an essential practice in the town, that’s a fact. But it is necessary think about the distribution of the gymnasium with other associations which have less space. Our objective is also to allow associations to find space and niches.” The project will continue to evolve with this goal in mind. “Our mission is to be able to redistribute to each association the possibility of doing as much sport as possible ».
How much would it cost?
If the project is still “provisional”, residents questioned elected officials about the cost of the natural and sports park project. “It would cost around €1.8 million including tax with subsidies which could reach €210,000 for the Green Fund, but also €500,000 from the Department and €300,000 from the Region. We try to work for help from the Prefecture, we meet the Prefect on this subject. We are going to ask for the maximum possible, i.e. €400,000.” Subsidies which could vary, after adaptation of the provisional project to the various comments made by current elected officials and residents.
The next two meetings will take place in the panoramic room, at 6:30 p.m., on the following dates: Thursday, November 28 for polling station number 2 (school sector, historic center) and Thursday, December 5 for station 3 (Bagot and heights sector). of the city).
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