The Minister for Housing, Guillaume Kasbarian, announced on Tuesday in Cannes ten measures to simplify town planning procedures, to shorten deadlines and reduce costs, in a context of deep construction crisis.
Some of these measures will be the subject of decrees in the coming weeks, others will be integrated into projects or proposed laws in the coming months, the minister promised at a press conference.
A bill for middle-class housing, including the sensitive reform of the Solidarity and Urban Renewal (SRU) law on social housing quotas, will be presented by June for a first reading examination before the been in one of the two assemblies, promised Guillaume Kasbarian.
For now, the minister has proposed ten measures, mainly technical, aimed at starting five simplification projects.
It is important, in the housing crisis that we are experiencing, (…) to be present alongside those who are suffering, affirmed Guillaume Kasbarian during the International Market of Real Estate Professionals (Mipim) Cannes.
Among these measures, the shortening of the deadlines for filing an appeal against a building and development permit, and deadlines for examining these appeals, which according to the executive would make it possible to reduce the cost of land tenure by up to 10%. . These measures will be passed through legislation.
The minister also wanted stakeholders to be able to act more quickly in the event of refusal of building permits in tense areas.
He promised to accelerate the digitalization of planning authorizations, by requiring more legal entities and professionals to submit building permits electronically.
Other technical measures must simplify planning procedures and relax the rules allowing construction within an existing subdivision.
The president of the French Building Federation (FFB) Olivier Salleron warmly welcomed these measures. Nothing new under the sun, he criticized at a press conference shortly before the ministerial announcements. We’ve been asking for this for three years. So if it takes three years to have some free measures (…) I will not tell you the state of buildings and employment in three years.