On a Loire-Atlantique beach in 2018. - SEBASTIEN SALOM GOMIS / SIPA

  • A collective, led by the president of the departmental council Philippe Grosvalet, sent a letter to Edouard Philippe.
  • They ask him to authorize "access to the coast and its uses" from May 11.

It is not only on the Breton coast that impatience is felt. In Loire-Atlantique too (no, this is not the time to relaunch the famous debate), we can't wait to be able to go to the beach again. This Wednesday, the president of the departmental council Philippe Grosvalet challenged the Prime Minister via a letter, co-signed by many elected officials and economic actors of the department. All asked him to authorize "access to the coast and its uses" from May 11.

"This reopening, limited and gradual, (...) would thus bring much-needed oxygen to the population, and thereby to a coastal economy greatly weakened by the crisis we are currently going through," write the signatories, who call Edouard Philippe to " consider the diversity of local realities ”. “Loire-Atlantique (…) is a densely populated department in which there is only one forest open to the public. (…) Without access to the coast which constitutes, on the surface, the first accessible natural space, there is a risk that this population will be concentrated in other sites more limited in carrying capacity ”, they underline.

The limited and gradual reopening of #littoral from May 11 would bring much needed oxygen to the population and would benefit a severely weakened coastal economy. I wrote with the partners of the Maritime and Coastal Challenge Charter to the Prime Minister ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/EBvtHlQGtG

- Philippe Grosvalet (@PGrosvalet) May 6, 2020

Priority to premises

Aware that "all activities on all coastal areas will not be possible for some time" (for example on sometimes narrow coastal paths), the collective pleads the cause of the department by asking the Prime Minister to consider access to the beaches walkers or local fishermen on foot, since the 100km limit is still in effect.

The signatories even go a little further by believing that certain nautical activities "lend themselves to individual practice and appear to be able to be exercised while respecting barrier gestures" ...

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