• Built in 2014, this house also had a garage, a 10 m3 swimming pool, a terrace and a block fence over 3 meters high.

  • On December 11, 2019, the criminal court sentenced the author of this work to the restoration of the premises within six months.

    No action had been taken since.

  • Generally, these convictions do not go as far as the intervention of the State.

    In 70% of cases, the owners execute the court decisions.

The prefect of Gard ordered the destruction of a 160 m2 house in Bernis, a town in Gard located about ten kilometers from Nîmes.

Built in 2014 on a concrete slab, this house also had a 50 m2 garage, a 10 m3 swimming pool, a terrace and a fence of more than 3 meters high over 100 linear meters.

On December 11, 2019, the criminal court ordered the author of this work to restore the premises within six months, under a penalty of 100 euros per day of delay.

“No restoration having been carried out and the financial penalties of more than 50,000 euros having not been recovered, the automatic execution of the court decision was put in place, namely the demolition of the property” , explains the prefecture.

A dozen procedures in progress in the Gard

“The subject of illegal constructions is a major issue in the Gard, evokes Grégoire Pierre-Dessaux, chief of staff of the prefect of Gard.

This so-called cabanization phenomenon has the effect of placing owners and occupants on land at risk.

“A dozen procedures are underway in the department.

Generally, they do not go as far as state intervention.



"In 70% of cases, the owners comply and restore the property and the land legally," says Jean-Emmanuel Bouchut, deputy director of the Departmental Directorate of Territories and the Sea of ​​Gard.

This time, it will be more complicated for the author of the works: in addition to the fine linked to the three years of financial penalties, he will also have to pay the demolition costs, or around 50,000 additional euros.

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