• A building in downtown Bordeaux collapsed rue Planterose, without injuring Wednesday. 

  • The city is planning specific actions on this street because other houses have been reported to it as very dilapidated. 

  • The Saint-Michel sector, cours de la Marne, Belcier is particularly supervised by the services of the city. 

On Wednesday, a spectacular collapse took place at 24/26 rue Planterose, in the Saint-Michel district of Bordeaux, without causing any injuries. A peril decree was issued on June 3 by the city and security work was underway on the building in question, after the evacuation of neighboring buildings. "Eleven buildings were evacuated in total, which represents around 30 homes, or 50 to 60 people relocated," says Stéphane Pfeiffer, housing deputy at the city hall of Bordeaux.

Unoccupied since 2014, the building, whose facade collapsed from the front, had to be restructured by a private investor who never actually started work.

It was finally Incité, a semi-public company whose goal is to rehabilitate dilapidated housing, which bought the property in 2019. The demolition was to take place in three months before the construction of social home ownership housing.

“After the site security work, design offices will check the solidity of the buildings,” points out Stéphane Pfeiffer.

"A global problem of maintenance by owner-lessors"

But beyond the collapsed building, a larger issue has been put forward. “By discussing with the tenants, we realized that we had a very pronounced unworthy housing problem in this street,” notes the housing assistant. There is a global problem of maintenance by landlord owners (even if some maintain their property properly, not all of them are involved) ”. The town hall, whose priority is initially to secure the street, is considering specific action in the sector. "We did not wait for the Planterose street event to take care of it, we have been working on it for several months," he argues. Particular vigilance is needed in certain pockets, such as the Saint Michel sector, cours de la Marne Belcier. "

He believes that "the rental permit" will help the town hall to control the condition of housing put on the market.

If we are tempted to make a connection with the situation in Marseille, the deputy recalls that the volume of housing concerned in Bordeaux is much lower and that Incité is already hard at work to identify and treat these dilapidated housing.

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