French Planning Law ?

French Planning Law ?

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bobo

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1,708 posts

284 months

Wednesday 17th August 2011
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Hi guys, i have a site that im thinking of developing. having looked at the PLU Plan Local d’Urbanisme it seems i could get up to 7 storeys of resi or 8 as hotel but the requirement is to have 2 parking spaces per new unit created.

does anyone know if you can offset off the site the parking requirement? this would be ideal as a new development opposite our site due next year will have 150 newly created underground parking spaces and to save me the expense of digging down perhaps i could just buy (if for sale) the allotted amount required and offset? just an idea...

any french planners/architects on the cote d'azur here? will need one eventually....


many thanks

rdjohn

6,333 posts

201 months

Thursday 18th August 2011
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You are better off asking directly at the local DDE / Marie for this type of question. If you try to be confrontational with the parking offset, as you might be with UK planners, you are likely to get bogged down in bureaucracy (a favourite French word)

I would also employ a local Architect / Maitre d'oeuvre en bâtiment at an early stage; the latter could do the initial planning as well as project manage the construction, but would need a chartered architect to sign-off the project for him.

As with all professionals, reputation and previous projects is more important than the lowest estimate of cost which tend too be about 10% in either case.

bobo

Original Poster:

1,708 posts

284 months

Thursday 18th August 2011
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rdjohn said:
You are better off asking directly at the local DDE / Marie for this type of question. If you try to be confrontational with the parking offset, as you might be with UK planners, you are likely to get bogged down in bureaucracy (a favourite French word)

I would also employ a local Architect / Maitre d'oeuvre en bâtiment at an early stage; the latter could do the initial planning as well as project manage the construction, but would need a chartered architect to sign-off the project for him.

As with all professionals, reputation and previous projects is more important than the lowest estimate of cost which tend too be about 10% in either case.
many thanks