Our series “Paris rethinks its future”
Social housing on the Champs-Élysées, symbolic proposition or real ambition?
Gardens, presbytery, private schools… When the City eyes religious property
Rue des Thermopyles: postcard Paris under threat?
(to be published Tuesday March 19)
Vincennes and Boulogne, the two green lungs of the capital to be preserved
(to be published Wednesday March 20)
“This is absurd… Persecution.
» This priest from a parish in the 16th arrondissement of Paris tries to contain himself, but anger is brewing in the Parisian Church.
In several parishes, the faithful were encouraged to express their dissatisfaction with the new bioclimatic Local Urban Planning Plan (PLU), which dictates the future of Paris for the next 15 years and for which a public inquiry has just ended.
It provides for the pastillage of a large number of buildings or green spaces belonging to the Church.
Under the direct control of the diocesan association or the (very) numerous congregations present in Paris, these buildings - private schools, presbytery, nursing homes managed by sisters - are covered by a "pastillage" - the equivalent of a classification.
They are likely, in short, to be bought back by the City in the event of a sale, which would then be free to transform them into social housing.
The pastillages of six private Catholic education establishments alone resulted in 78% of participation in the public survey.
A real outcry.
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