Bastia Local Urban Plan (PLU) and Housing Prioritization: Updates and Future Plans

Since April 2014, studies have aimed to establish a new local urban plan for the city of Bastia. Friday, November 17, the main points of this document were presented. With a stated priority: housing.

After the first debates in the municipal council, the local urban plan (PLU) document continues its progress.

Just before the start of the public inquiry, the Bastia PLU was publicly presented on Friday November 17.

The priority of this project is the creation of additional housing: 900 in the short and medium term, and up to 4,000 additional housing units in 2040.

One of the constraints in developing this PLU is compliance with the climate and resilience law. It provides for an end to land artificialization by 2050.

A solution for Bastia town hall: exploit what already exists. As with the old Montesoro college and the old hospital in the Toga district, where housing is planned. All while maintaining affordable prices.

“Our desire is to verticalize, to build a little higher, which creates more housingindicates Mayor Pierre Savelli. And what we want is that for each new promotion that is going to be built, there is the sanctification of 10% devoted to access to property at controlled prices, that is to say 30% at – below the price per square meter.”

Another important point: this is the question of the agricultural areas around Bastia

Objective: to encourage the establishment of young market gardeners and farmers through pastoral land associations (AFP).

Among the Bastiais present in the room, elected officials from the Corsican Assembly, the municipal majority and the opposition were able to give their opinion.

Like Serena Battestini, territorial advisor of the Core in Fronte group:“In Bastia, we have 1,700 meals per day which are prepared and distributed in schools. What would be interesting would be to have a vision of the future, to be pioneers: we have agricultural land, we produce on site and we directly supply the central offices and canteens.”

“I don’t understand at all how the development of agriculture will allow the development of the city of Bastia, underlines for his part Frédéric Poletti, spokesperson for the collective “Let’s act against the high cost of fuel in Corsica” and former campaign director of Jean-Sébastien de Casalta. If the town hall really wants to implement agriculture, it must be able to think about what type of agriculture it wants to implement. However, today, its only concern is to make land available to farmers, imagining that it is therefore the absence of land which poses a problem for agriculture in Corsica…”

In approximately three months, the matter will be submitted to a public inquiry.

The final review and voting is scheduled for July 2024.

Find the report by Lionel Luciani, Solange Graziani and Océane Da Cunha: