The 2022 property tax notices are online and many owners have seen an increase. This is the case in the Mer basin (Loir-et-Cher), in Beauce. On the website of the Beauce-Val de Loire community of municipalities (CCBVL), its president, Pascal Huguet (various right), published a letter to justify this increase. It reads: “I would also like to point out that without the appeal filed by the collective ‘Down with concrete’, we could have benefited from a recipe of around 5 million euros this year and which could have led us to another outcome. regarding local tax. »
Founded with the objective of fighting against the concreting of soils in Mer, this collective is chaired by Noé Petit, an 18-year-old Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) activist and candidate of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) in the last legislative, in this third constituency of Loir-et-Cher. With the ambition of “change the system”, Noé Petit had been particularly virulent against Pascal Brindeau, the outgoing UDI deputy, candidate for his re-election (with Pascal Huguet as his deputy), before finally being beaten in the first round. It is the candidate of the presidential camp, Christophe Marion, who was elected deputy.
On the CCBVL’s Facebook page, where Mr. Huguet’s press release was relayed, the salvo against Noé Petit continued with acrimonious comments. “Parents of students in Méroises schools can thank you since this lack of revenue also leads to under-investment, particularly in schooling”, writes for example Richard Pichet, former municipal councilor of Mer.
Proximity to the A10
Mer, with around 6,000 inhabitants, is certainly surrounded by fields of cereals… but has recently concentrated a dozen logistics warehouses erected on a vast industrial wasteland, 200 hectares in size, where, until 1999, chains of production of Epéda mattresses employing up to 1,000 employees. About one kilometer from a Natura 2000 area, these new facilities take full advantage of their proximity to an interchange on the A10 motorway. They allow big names in e-commerce to deliver their goods quickly across the country. So much so that other platforms are currently under construction. And a last project could see the light of day on the other side of the A10 this time, on former agricultural land.
It’s too much for Down with Concrete. On February 20, the collective organized a march in the streets of Mer bringing together nearly 200 participants, followed by a futile request for a moratorium “on any new construction that harms our environment in the region”. A request made to elected officials from the Centre-Val de Loire region, led by the Socialist Party. Following a non-contentious appeal, then in litigation filed on May 2 with the Orleans administrative court and deemed admissible in the process, the collective obtained a blocking of the project for at least eighteen months. The promoter envisaged the construction of 16 hectares of buildings on the Cent Planches business park, an agricultural wasteland freshly excavated by the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), which has made it possible to attest to farming activity from the end of the Roman Empire. This action filed by the group contests the ICPE authorization order (“installation classified for the protection of the environment”) issued by the prefecture.
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