“We are at the end of the tunnel”, breathes the prefect of Gironde Fabienne Buccio, who announced this Thursday that the file for the Le Signal building in Soulac-sur-Mer would be completed by the end of the year. .
In accordance with the wishes of the Médoc Atlantique community of municipalities, "I hope that we can then demolish Le Signal at the beginning of 2023."
Having become the symbol of the consequences of the erosion of the Atlantic coast, the building, erected in the 1960s 200 m from the shore, was no longer separated by more than twenty meters from the ocean at the beginning of the 2010s. a legal standoff was about to begin in January 2014, when an order to evacuate the building, made up of 78 apartments, was issued.
At the end of the litigation, an envelope of seven million euros was finally released in 2020 to compensate the co-owners.
A long and complex file
The file is not yet finalized.
“I have just signed a new amicable agreement with an owner, and we still have three files to complete, indicates the prefect.
We are having trouble, because these are family joint ownerships, there are several individuals who are in the four corners of the world, who are sometimes even unaware of having a right to this building... In short, we have finally found everyone, and I hope that we will have everything finished before the end of the year.
“It was a long and complex file, but we got there.
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After the demolition, a development will be created along the coastline.
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