Vendée: A municipality faces judges for selling a “children’s playground” in a residential area

Seven Residents From your Nesmy He was referred to the Administrative Court of NantesTuesday, October 3, 2023, and I wished He sued the town after its municipal council allowed the sale of “the only green space” in its subdivision For two new arrivals.

“The only green spaces in Taksim”

“The 195 square meter plot of land was sold in 2014 by the ‘colotis assembly’ of Hameau du Golf to the town hall for a symbolic euro in exchange for its maintenance and integration into the private sphere of the municipality,” recontextualized the public decision. Seven years later, the municipality decided to sell it for 17,550 euros.

“Of course, there was no tree planted on this land, but it was the only green space in the subdivision: when children play football, this is where they go,” explained M.^H Anne-Sophie Sarday, local residents’ lawyer, before the three judges of Nantes. The lawyer said: “Therefore, the plot of land was allocated for public use, and that is why it was sold in 2014… But now, after a few years, the municipality has disposed of it to recover some public funds.”

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The Rapporteur-General, whose opinions are often followed by judges, found nothing wrong with the deliberations of the Nesmi Municipal Council: this plot was “unbuilt”, “wasteland” and did not support “any particular development”. “The fact that it is a green space used by the public does not make it de facto within the municipal public domain,” he said.

These conclusions “surprised” M^H Sardi, who noted that the parcel was not “abandoned by roads.” “The field was somehow open,” the president of the Nantes Administrative Court summed up with a smile.

Municipality lawyer Nasmi M^H For his part, Westan Plato did not make any other comments at the hearing other than those he had already stated in his written submissions. The buyers of the plot of land did not attend the session and were not represented by a lawyer.

The Nantes Administrative Court, which reserved its ruling, is scheduled to issue its decision in about a month.

JF (Press Paper)

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