Back to square one ?
The Lille administrative court canceled, this Thursday, the project for a new Saint-Sauveur district, desired by the mayor of Lille for nearly ten years.
The judges noted procedural flaws in the joint approaches of the city of Lille and the metropolis of Lille (Mel).
Does this decision mark the end of the development project of a 23 hectare railway wasteland (46 football fields) with housing, offices, shops and a 3.4 hectare park and an Olympic swimming pool?
Or will she just delay it?
Contacted, the city and metropolis of Lille have not yet followed up.
"Inaccuracies and inadequacies"
The judges' decision is based on "the inaccuracies and inadequacies tainting the impact study on the basis of which the first public inquiry was organized".
The Métropole de Lille had tried to remedy this by organizing a second so-called complementary public inquiry.
All false.
The court ruled that she could not regularize the first.
"The MEL should have organized a new public inquiry under common law, and not just a complementary inquiry, and at the end of this take a new decision declaring the project of general interest", explains the court in a report. communicated.
On the other hand, the judges confirm the character of general interest of the project "with regard to the environmental issues, by relying in particular on the conclusions of the investigating commissioner who issued twice a favorable opinion on this project", during the public inquiries. .
More information to follow ...
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