Through Valentine mauduit
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This project has been in the head of management for some time. It all started with “Privatization” of rue Henri-Dunant. This street is no longer open to traffic and now belongs to the hospital.
Once this first step has been validated, the project goes into high gear with the demolition of the house “Dulac”. These former private homes were victims of a fire in July 2018. Obviously because of a squatter.
A stuck excavator
The first shovel blows should have been given in the presence of Dominique Le Mèner, President of the Departmental Council, Fabrice Prigneau, director of the hospital and local elected officials, Michel leroy, president of the community of municipalities, Marc Mercier, mayor of Saint-Calais, and Françoise Lelong, assistant.
But only should have … since the excavator, suitable for asbestos removal operations, was stuck. ” It’s a swampy place, she found herself trapped in the mud and it became a sucker. She practically does 50 tons therefore… ”, explains a member of the site.
A smaller excavator disbursed all around in order to slip some gravel and regain grip on the tracks. “This is going to us delay two days. For the demolition operation it takes a month, ”continues the worker, unrolling the tape so as not to get too close to the scene.
Supervised tree felling
At the same time, the small excavator cleans the bamboo and other foliage which took their ease during these fallow years.
Only, a “detail” seems to annoy Dominique le Mèner and he hastens to let it know? “Are you going to knock down all the trees around there?” “Faced with the affirmative, he regrets:
We can no longer do construction sites like 30 years ago, we have to protect birds, we see that there are nests in some trees, we protect them, I care. These considerations have been ignored for too long, all sites must be as green as possible.
Faced with this discontent, Fabrice Prignaud ensures that this side of the project will be rethought.
40 million euros
Let us come back to the main project, “thanks to this new building, we will be able to offer an accommodation offer in line with the standards of what is done today”, indicates the director of the hospital.
This project amounts to 40 million euros, but will be divided into two tranches of 20 million euros. “A first part for the medical-social phase, and another of so-called health reconstruction ”, one explains on the side of the hospital center. The financial package is not yet tied, “but the Department should participate up to 25%”.
To see the first patients in it, you will have to be patient. If Fabrice Prignaud remains evasive on the delivery date, Dominique Le Mèner seems to want to stay the course of three years, “I don’t like it when things drag on,” he says.
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