Justice has canceled Friday part of the local plan of urban planning (PLU) Poligny, in the Jura, which was to allow the construction of a Center Parcs.

The Administrative Court of Besançon on Friday canceled part of the local urban plan (PLU) of Poligny, in the Jura, which was to allow the construction of a Center Parcs, challenged by an association for the defense of the environment, a- we learned from a judicial source.

400 cottages and an aquatic area in an ecological corridor

The local association "Pic Noir" had appealed against a deliberation of March 23, 2017 approving the PLU of this town of 4,000 inhabitants. The planning document was to authorize the construction of 400 cottages and a tropical aquatic area on an area of ​​88.9 hectares in a forest. In its judgment, which the AFP consulted, the administrative court notes that the area open to urbanization "is located in a vast natural whole forested Poligny forest, crossed by an ecological corridor listed in the regional plan of ecological coherence of Franche-Comté ".

"The project (...) will be the source of human pressure and sound, whose impact on the movement of wildlife and the protection of species listed on the site and on their inhabitants, will extend far beyond of the only surface "concerned, is it explained.

"We can not develop anything anymore"

"It's the current context that we can not do anything anymore, we can not develop anything anymore," said Mayor of Poligny, Dominique Bonnet, on France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté. According to him, the judicial decision "may delay the project". "I will not engage in divisions, if there is pressure that is not favorable, I will bow," said the mayor, who can appeal. "This project does not comply with climate issues and the ecological transition," reacted in the Progress Véronique Ghislain, for the association "Pic Noir". According to her, the cancellation "proves the validity of our approach".

The association was created to challenge the project of the group of tourism and real estate Pierre and Vacances, wondering in particular on the supply of water and the sewerage, the road accesses and the financing of the future complex. Contacted by AFP, the promoter did not wish to comment.