In Rennes, residents complain of the noise pollution they have been subjected to since the installation of a concert tent and a guinguette in 2019.
The managers of the MeM claim to be aware of the nuisances and have invested to limit their impact, but the conflict continues.
The city of Rennes is trying to arbitrate the debates and will bring together all the protagonists before a conciliation commission this Thursday.
For several months, anger has been rising in the homes of residents of the Sainte-Foix road.
A stone's throw from the ring road, these residents are stuck between two thorny issues: the occupation of the MeM and its guinguette and the extension of the Stade Rennais training center.
Thursday, it is about the first "problem" that they will be summoned before a conciliation commission.
Seized by the city of Rennes, this body will try to reconcile the residents of the marquee which has been hosting concerts for two years and the programmers of the Center for the Production of Contemporary Words (CPPC) which manages the MeM but also the hall of the 'Aire Libre or Mythos festival.
Pinned by the Regional Chamber of Accounts for its mix between association and private entities, does the structure chaired by Maël Le Goff benefit from a free pass from the municipality?
This is what the local residents denounce.
And what the city and the CPPC refute.
Argument match.
They can't take it anymore
On evenings of electro concerts, they close all the windows.
Which is still not enough to cut yourself off from the noise that emerges from the Magic Mirror marquee located 200 m from their house.
Anne-Sophie and Guillaume have been living in La Prévalaye for a year and a half.
Neighbors of the MeM and its guinguette, they complain, like all of the forty residents, of the noise pollution generated by the arrival of cultural equipment.
“Everyone knows that there are nuisances.
But no one is moving.
The city has been listening for two years but doing nothing, ”regrets the couple.
Measurements have indeed been taken and confirm that the regulatory thresholds are sometimes exceeded, at certain frequencies.
The report was submitted to the city's Environmental Health Service without it changing their daily lives.
The installation of a noise limiter at the expense of the CPPC did not revolutionize daily life either.
To the point of making the inhabitants suspicious.
“The more I immerse myself in the file, the more I realize that there is largesse.
They are allowed things, perhaps because they have a flamboyant cultural image.
We know that there are economic and attractiveness issues.
But there are also people who live there”, tackle Arnaud, who has lived in the area for thirteen years.
Most of the local residents contacted denounced a “usury strategy” aimed at getting them to leave.
Fred denounces in particular the "playing space" that the Prévalaye would have become.
They defend themselves
Installed since May 2019 at La Piverdière, the MeM guinguette and the Magic Mirror marquee have suffered the full brunt of the successive closures linked to Covid-19.
In two years, the two places have nevertheless managed to find their audience, becoming major players in the leisure offer of the Breton capital.
Nuisances ?
"We don't take them lightly.
We have injected several thousand euros into studies and the installation of a noise limiter”, assures Emmanuel Grange, secretary general of the Center for the production of contemporary lyrics which manages the equipment.
“I can't wait for us to neighbor on good terms.
We didn't set up the MeM to annoy the neighbors but to bring Rennes' cultural offer to life,” he assures us.
On Monday evening, new measurements were to be taken in the marquee.
Not during a concert but during controlled noise emissions, which does not really convince local residents, who are demanding more transparency.
"It is the acoustics specialists who ask us for these conditions so that the measurements are carried out in good conditions", assures Emmanuel Grange.
They try to mediate
In the midst of this conflict, the city acts as arbiter.
It was she who convened the conciliation commission to try to find a way out of the conflict.
“We have to get everyone around the table to find a balanced solution,” says Cyrille Morel, nightlife assistant.
The elected official close to Nathalie Appéré refutes any "impunity" from which the MeM could benefit.
“Measurements continue to be made.
We have to check that the regulations are respected.
That does not mean that there are no nuisances, ”assures the elected official.
Cyrille Morel, who lives several hundred meters from the marquee, remembers having perfectly heard the sounds of the concert of the group Salut, c'est cool in November 2019. "The prefecture had heard it too", slips-t- he.
This hadn't caused the organizers any trouble.
“There were formal notices”, assures the elected official.
But never administrative closure.
“The economic question is not completely neutral.
Here as elsewhere”.
Before the move of the structure next spring (
read below
), the nightlife assistant could propose “to adapt the styles of concerts” in order to limit nuisances, while preventing.
“We are not going to ban electro.
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Waiting for the marquee to move
Temporarily installed on the Prévalaye site, the MeM marquee will have to move in the spring of 2023, the date of the end of its occupancy agreement signed with the city.
During a particularly stormy meeting, Maël Le Goff therefore presented the “future” marquee which will resemble that of the Cabaret Sauvage at La Villette, in Paris.
Its promise: to reduce by 20 decibels the sounds which will come out of the musical enclosure and thus greatly limit the nuisances.
A new marquee which will be installed a few hundred meters from the current location, in the car park used by its customers and Stade Rennais.
An investment estimated between 2.5 and 3.5 million euros which required modifying the classification of the land in order to comply with the local urban plan and offer a lasting solution to the MeM.
“It's a purely private project that will need more time to recoup its investment.
We had to ensure their sustainability, especially as the project found its audience, as there was an expectation”, explains Marc Hervé, first deputy for town planning.
The modification of the classification of the future land of the MeM into Sectors of limited size and capacity (Stecal) has caused residents to jump, who explain that they are refused the construction of a chicken coop or small extensions on the grounds that they are in a sensitive natural and ecological zone.
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