The transformation of the Communauté d'Agglomération de Montpellier into a Metropole on January 1, 2015 led to the transfer of Local Urban Planning (PLU) competence from the member communes to the Metropole.
The PLUi project was approved at the Metropole Council meeting on October 8, 2024.
Why draw up a PLUi-Climat?
Extended to the territory of several communes, the PLUi aims to bring urban planning, housing and travel issues to an intercommunal scale.
It defines the territory's major development orientations and its challenges within a vision of some fifteen years and aims to strengthen solidarity between communes to propose a co-construction project, pooling engineering and financial resources to produce qualitative documents.
A veritable toolbox for guiding regional development and ensuring consistency between its various challenges (housing, mobility, economic activities, environment, etc.), the PLUi is also a major vehicle for transcribing the communal or inter-communal project.
Like other urban planning documents, the PLUi must aim to ensure the conditions for sustainable planning of the territory, taking into account the needs of inhabitants and the territory's resources, and combining social, economic and environmental dimensions (including economical management of space and the fight against soil artificialisation).
It constitutes a central tool for framing operational development: its prescriptions apply to works, constructions, developments, plantations, scouring or raising of soil, as well as, where applicable, to the opening of classified installations belonging to the categories targeted by the PLUi.
It meets 2 major objectives:
- Decline locally the strategic orientations of the metropolitan project and the Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale (SCoT) revised in November 2019, defined collectively;
- Enable the realization of local urban projects.
What does a PLUi consist of?
The PLUi is made up of several documents:
- The presentation report: mainly sets out the diagnosis and initial state of the environment. It assesses the needs of the territory and justifies the choices made, particularly with regard to environmental preservation objectives;
- The Sustainable Planning and Development Project (PADD): defines the strategy and orientations of the territory's development project.
- The Planning and Programming Guidelines (OAP): define the specific provisions of project sectors.
- The graphic regulations: define urban, natural, agricultural and urbanization zones, and the written regulations set out the rules for constructability.
- The appendices: contain information and constraints to be taken into account (public utility servitudes, sanitary appendices, list of subdivisions, etc.)
Key figures
Milestones
2015
Deliberation by the Metropolitan Council initiating the preparation of the intercommunal PLU (PLUi) of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
2020-2024
- + 100 bilateral Commune-Métropole meetings, workshops, public meetings, concertations
- 3 plenary seminars
- 8 meetings of the steering committee, made up of the President of the Metropole, the Vice-President in charge of planning and sustainable development and the 31 mayors, to validate the directions taken.
- Update of the PADD
October 8, 2024: approval of the project
The complete PLUi project (report on consultation, presentation report, PADD, regulations, OAPs and appendices) is presented and voted on by the Metropolitan Council. Then, the metropolis' member communes and the Personnes Publiques Associées (PPA)* will have 3 months to give their opinion on the PLUi project
Fall-winter 2024-2025
The public inquiry: this allows the public to comment on the complete PLUi project approved by the metropolitan council. For complete information, the opinions of the 31 communes and the PPAs will be attached to the PLUi file that will be submitted to the public inquiry.
Summer 2025
Vote on the PLUi and its application regulations The PLUi will be put to the vote at the Metropolitan Council. If validated, it will apply to the 31 communes of the metropolis and will be enforceable 1 month after its approval.
Consultation with local residents
The consultation period, organized throughout the development of the PLUi, is now closed. The PLUi project has been submitted for approval to the elected representatives of the Metropolitan Council at its meeting on October 8, 2024.
Following this approval, the Personnes Publiques Associées (State, Region, Département, ...) will be asked to issue an opinion. A commission of inquiry will then be appointed by the administrative court to conduct a public inquiry from January 29 to February 28, 2025. You will then be able to submit your observations and additional opinions to the commission of inquiry.
At the end of the public inquiry, the project, possibly modified, will be submitted for approval to the Metropolitan Council.