After the abandonment of the project, Europacity by the government, the president of the region Île-de-France will present a plan to “emergency”.
Valérie Pécresse to the rescue in the Val-d’oise. The president of the region Île-de-France announced on Thursday an investment plan of nearly a billion euros in the Val d’oise, after the abandonment by the government of megacomplexe Europacity.
The plan, which will be “subject to consultation”, was finalized on Thursday with the regional council of Île-de-France, with the president of the departmental council of Val d’oise, france, Marie-Christine Cavecchi (LR), explained Valérie Pécresse during a press conference, in the presence of many elected officials of the department.
Identify land for investors
Emmanuel Macron has announced the beginning of November the abandonment of Europacity, a mega-complex of shops and leisure weighing in at 3.1 billion euros, which was supposed to be installed by 2027 fertile land in the triangle de Gonesse (Val d Oise) north of Paris, and that hérissait the defenders of the environment, such as small merchants.
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With the abandonment of this “very beautiful project of creation of jobs and economic development”, “the social consequences will be incalculable,” said Valérie Pécresse : “The region has decided to take its responsibilities,” with “an emergency plan for the Val d’oise”, which “will cost the region in the coming years nearly a billion euros”.
But “this is not the area or department that will create jobs in private,” she insisted, pointing to the uncertainty for investors “given what just happened to Europacity”. The region will, in particular, to launch “a comprehensive review of all the wastelands of the Île-de-France, in order to identify the land on which we can say to an investor that he can begin”.
A new international grammar school and a boarding school of excellence
She also wants to “propose to the State to decentralise the future national Agency for territorial cohesion in Villiers-le-Bel, to assist in the relocation of a horticultural industry in the department “on polluted land”, and will “instruct the Grand Paris Planning to launch, through a firm of independent experts, an assessment of the quality of the soil in the triangle de Gonesse”.
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The emergency plan shall also go through the creation of a new international grammar school and a boarding school of excellence, the creation of a centre for training apprentices (CFA) on the businesses of digital, the development of a Campus of the trades of the security. Valérie Pécresse also wants to “work with the State to a project of construction of a new ‘Great cultural place’ in the department”.
In terms of transport, it proposes the launch of a transportation plan at the request “as soon as 2020” in the Vexin, the experimentation of “carpool citizen in rural areas” and a “great plan of cleaning the surroundings of the highways valdoisiennes”. “All that I have announced can be achieved in five years, it all depends on the green light from the State. We expect that the State of vienna in co-financing of these projects,” said Valérie Pécresse.
other measures include “ask a written commitment from the State, on the realization of line 17 of the Grand Paris Express for 2027”, in which the justice decided on Friday to suspend for a year the work, or request the State “the extension of the tram 11 Express to be hired in the next contract of plan State-region”.
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Marie-Christine Cavecchi (LR) was said to have “confidence in Valérie Pécresse” to put all of these elements in the market”. “We need a little hope on this territory,” added the mayor of Gonesse, Jean-Pierre Bluzy (PS).
