In the standoff between the prefecture of Oise and the town hall of Chambly, it was the representative of the State, Corinne Orzechowski, who had the last word.
Work on the Sports Plain, and therefore on the future stadium for the only Ligue 2 football team in the department, will be suspended.
A last letter sent this Thursday to the mayor, David Lazarus, seems to have convinced him to apply the decision rendered on October 20 by the Council of State.
Seized by the Association for the Development of the Valley of Esches (AAVE), the authority suspended the prefectural decree authorizing the planning permit.
This opinion and a writing from the prefect, at the beginning of November, "are sufficient in law to ask the mayor of Chambly to stop the work", confirmed Corinne Orzechowski, also this Thursday, in a letter addressed to the president of the AAVE, Alain Perrein .
Chambly, this Friday morning.
On site, the workers said they were not informed of a potential stoppage of the site.
LP / Julien Barbare
But the application of this court decision was not without difficulty.
This Friday morning, construction machinery and workers were still busy, like every day.
"The obligation to stop?
No, no one told me anything, ”one of the workers assured.
It was finally at the end of the day that the Camblysian councilor surrendered.
Probably because of the content of the last prefectural letter.
"I asked the relevant services to verify the mayor's compliance with the decision of the Council of State", assured Corinne Orzechowski in her letter to the AAVE.
Refusing to answer the Parisian's questions, David Lazarus finally released a press release this Friday afternoon.
"A plan to withdraw businesses and secure the site is being developed in order to safely suspend goods and people from the site", announces the city.
The mayor exposes himself to "legal proceedings"
“He does not have much choice, analyzes a connoisseur of the file.
He really risks being prosecuted.
The association has already seized the public prosecutor, who closed the case without further action.
But if there is a report from the state services attesting that the law is not respected, that could be another story.
However, a second complaint was filed in early July.
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Also in her letter to the association, the prefect of Oise indicates that her approach is independent of "legal proceedings to which the mayor is exposed because of the new complaint that you have filed".
At the time for "the handful of opponents" that the city stigmatized in a Facebook post which seems to have disappeared today.
They actually had the state and the law on their side.
Chambly, this Friday.
If the pitch seems ready, the two smaller stands are not yet finished.
LP / Julien Barbare
What do they blame for the stadium project?
Besides the fact that the association would have preferred that nature, a wetland in this case, not give way to new constructions, it is in the field of town planning that it went.
In August 2015, the regional prefecture voted on a first project presented by the town hall, namely an extension of its stadium over 3.5 hectares.
The city is then “exempt from environmental assessment”.
In January 2016, the Oise prefecture therefore issued an order authorizing the project which, including the old stadium, occupies 4.4 hectares.
Subsequently, Chambly thinks bigger, in particular to offer its badminton team, which has obtained very good results, the setting it deserves.
New plans, those of the Plaine des Sports, are therefore sent to the prefecture, which validates this new project of… 10.2 hectares.
There, the experts are opposed.
Was it then necessary to carry out an environmental study?
The administrative court of Amiens should rule in a few weeks
Seized by the association, the administrative court of Amiens first said “no” in 2019. A decision that the Council of State therefore overturned on October 20, considering that the judge “committed an error of law ".
Thus, "in the absence of a new environmental assessment", the authority judges that the AAVE is within its rights.
It will once again be up to the Amiens administrative court to rule.
The big question now is the deadline.
“The investigation is completed, indicates the administrative court of Amiens.
This means that the judge considers that he has all the elements to make a decision.
It's a matter of weeks.
The date of the hearing has not yet been set, however.
Chambly, this Friday.
The supporters will have to wait before they can encourage their players at home.
LP / Julien Barbare
To the chagrin of the main victim: FC Chambly Oise (FCCO), who did not wish to react.
Economically, the stadium is in fact eagerly awaited by the professional club, because it is a future source of income, and the rental of the Beauvaisian field where the players play is expensive ... In terms of sport, while the club is in difficulty, last in its championship, to really play at home in front of his audience should have allowed a second wind.
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The only good news is that while the contract between Beauvais and the FCCO for the rental of the stadium in the city-prefecture ended at the end of 2020, the club obtained, "just in case", the agreement to play there until the end of 2020. end of the season.
With the delay due to Covid-19, the delivery of the stadium was anyway announced for February.
A delay to which is added, from now on, that of the administrative tribunal.
The shorter the better.
The risk of a descent in National being real, the stadium of 4,500 places estimated at more than 10 million euros could then not know the Ligue 2 for which it had been dimensioned.
