Autour Du Rocher project cancelled

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[h=2]From Le Journal de St Barth

DIVISION AT CESCE ON THE VILLA TWELVE ROOMS OF AROUND THE ROCK[/h]

by VA
07/04/2019

The CESCE (under the former mandate) delivered an opinion on the project of villa twelve rooms in Autour du Rocher, recently published on its website, which has not been unanimous among councilors. Since then, the administrative court has canceled the building permit, a brake for this controversial project.
Asked by the Community in May, the CESCE gave an opinion on the impact on the proposed 12-bedroom villa project in Autour du Rocher. The institution asks the owner to reduce his project, in agreement with the Collectivité. But the latter has already lightened his copy: he had obtained a planning certificate for a hotel of 24 bungalows in 2015, against which a petition had gathered nearly a thousand signatories (JSB 1222).Finally, after negotiations with Bruno Magras, who had authorized the first version of the hotel, the petitioner presented this twelve-bedroom villa with a bar area, spa, swimming pools, staff, reception area, beach area, etc. "The CESCE wonders about the desirability of carrying out such a project, which is added to the plethoric tourist accommodation offer", explains the institution in its opinion, available online on its website. "The CESCE, while admitting that this type of project helps to reinforce the image of the very high-end that carries our island, also warns that it contributes to aggravate its densification and all that that implies. Especially since the description of the project and the arrangements suggests, according to the CESCE, that it is more of a hotel structure ... "Another question is the capacity of the island's infrastructure to welcome such projects: "Everyone knows that the Community has, on many occasions, drawn attention to the main problems of water and energy distribution on the island. island. The production capacity thresholds of the networks are getting closer. The scale of this type of energy-consuming and water-consuming project will undoubtedly contribute to worsening and accelerating the saturation drift of the island's networks. In other words, this project is likely to prevent other more modest projects for housing or family housing from arising in the future. "And to emphasize that the petitioner would have underestimated the needs, with a consumption of 8m3 of water per day and 100,000 kW / h, an average of 274 kWh / day, "which corresponds to a five-bedroom villa with pool ", Without any integrated renewable energy element.License canceledThis opinion was submitted to the vote of eleven advisers (Pierre Kirscher, a lawyer of the Collectivité, did not participate to avoid any conflict of interest). Six validated it, but three preferred to abstain.Meanwhile, the building permit was canceled by the administrative court (JSB 1308), seized by neighbors around the Rock. However, it is a safe bet that this family only won a postponement of the project, the court having retained a single point against the petitioner, it will have little trouble to readjust to be in the nails of the urban planning map.JSB 1333
 
Would be interesting to get a comparison of the effect of 12 new 2 bedroom villas spread across the island.
 
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