Noise pollution, waste left on the ground … In the heart of the Clou-Bouchet district in Niort (Deux-Sèvres), residents want to put an end to incivility. With the Trade Union Confederation of Families 79, they sent a letter to the town hall.
“I’m not against getting together in the evening, but there are limits”. Claudie is one of those inhabitants of Clou-Bouchet who can’t take it anymore. In this district of Niort (Deux-Sèvres), nocturnal music and litter are part of their daily life. With the beautiful summer evenings, groups of people occupy the place Raoul Auzanneau on a daily basis.
Tired of this situation, some residents of the neighborhood asked for help from the Confédération Syndicale des Familles 79 to alert the town hall to the nuisance caused.
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“It lasts until 2 or 3 in the morning!”
In the evening, from her apartment on the seventh floor, Claudie ensures that she cannot leave the window open at night. “It makes a lot of noise”, she annoys. At the foot of the building, Danielle, another resident, confirms the noise pollution, amplified by the natural resonance chamber of the Place Raoul Auzanneau. “Sometimes there are evenings that don’t make too much noise … But hey, it lasts until 2 or 3 in the morning!”
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These inhabitants do not only denounce the problems of noise pollution. Garbage is also part of their daily life. Because on the place Raoul Auzanneau, shared barbecues are made available by the city. “They are not necessarily residents of the neighborhoods, but necessarily they come with their charcoal, their food, their drink”, explains Claudie. “You shouldn’t put everyone in the same basket. Some people leave all their trash on the floor, and others pick it up.”
More and more rubbish
Even in the shared gardens, residents regularly find cans and other waste. Claudie notices that this situation discourages her neighbors from coming to garden.
A little further from Place Raoul Auzanneau, residents ensure that the garbage containers are used as waste reception centers. A washing machine had been stored there for a few days according to a local resident. “Here it is a place of passage, it is not only the inhabitants of the district who deposit their waste”, she laments. “We saw lawn mowing, hedge trimming, etc.”
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The town hall, for its part, ensures that a response to the letter from the Confédération Syndicale des Familles 79 is being drafted. “These problems are not new”, declared Dominique Six, first deputy of the City of Niort, To The New Republic Thursday July 29. “We have to admit that we are subjected to incivilities but we cannot be overreacting if they are not reported to us.”
The town hall calls the citizens “to be a little more virtuous and to use the public services which are made available to them, either to remove bulky items, or to report anomalies in the public space.”
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