Time flies and problems accumulate for the media village of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games dont work is suspended. Along with the athletes’ village and the Saint-Denis Olympic aquatic center (CAO), the media village is one of the flagship projects of the Olympic Games-2024. Their launch is scheduled for 2022 and everything must be completed by December 2023.
Built in the municipalities of Dugny, La Courneuve and Saint-Denis, and on part of the Georges-Valbon departmental park, the media village will welcome technicians and journalists from all over the world in the summer of 2024, before being transformed into an eco – district of 1,300 housing units.
Seine-Saint-Denis needs housing
, repeat in heart elected officials and developers, who claim the share inheritance
promised by the Olympics for this very poor department.
An argument hammered out last September when the media village seemed threatened in the midst of discussions by the organizers aimed at saving money. It will finally be built in two phases, before and after 2024.
But, the suspension ordered Tuesday by the Administrative Court of Appeal of Paris is the first legal obstacle in the mechanics of the Olympics. So far, only a motorway interchange in Saint-Denis had given rise to a procedure, but work had been able to resume.
“Watch the impact”
You have to look at the impact on the schedule and the consequences
, explains modestly the Solideo (Delivery company of Olympic works), busy since Tuesday evening to peel the interim order which suspended part of the environmental authorization issued by the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis in November 2020.
This may represent an authorization, pending an appeal on the merits which will undoubtedly take several months.
For a year now, the general manager of the Solideo, Nicolas Ferrand, has assured: despite the confinement, deadlines are met
. Responsible for building long-term structures for the Olympic Games, she supervises 62 structures ranging from the athletes’ village to renovations of gymnasiums, including bridges and walkways.
When it comes to the media village, time is running out.
According to the terms of the ordinance, the Solideo and the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis, defended the urgency of the work, because the servicing tasks carried out must imperatively be carried out before the lots are made available to real estate operators, whose works must start no later than September 30, 2021
.
Clearly, the lots have been allocated to promoters and must be serviced by September, in order to be on time for the Games.
JO pretext
For the two associations which took legal action (the National Movement for the Fight for the Environment MNLE 93 and the Collective for the Triangle de Gonesse), this is a development operation harmful to the environment, with JO as a pretext.
In this regard, the summary judge highlighted the fact that no alternative solutions making it possible to limit the attack on protected species and, in particular, to avoid urbanization, over an area of approximately eight hectares, of the southwestern fringe of the Vents area, which could in any case cause to be the subject of a rehabilitation adapted to his condition
.
We are in regional planning more than in the Games
, recognizes one of the actors of the file. When another concedes difficulties
on the media village, “since the candidacy” of France for the Olympics. “At the same time, politically, it would be complicated to give it up,” commented another source.
Asked by AFP, the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis has not yet reacted.
Another twist around the village, the greatest uncertainty reigns around its service via line 16, at Le Bourget, which has little chance of being ready in time.
For its part, the Paris 2024 organizing committee, responsible for organizing the events, including the shooting test not far from the media village, did not wish to speak.
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