the essentials The construction of a building of 21 housing units, in the Saint-Michel district of Toulouse, is definitively canceled.
Toulouse town hall has just suffered a legal setback. The Council of State confirmed the cancellation of the building permit for a building of 21 housing units, granted in 2021. At issue: the attack on protected green spaces and the impact on local residents.
The Council of State rejected, yesterday Tuesday, the appeal filed by the town hall of Toulouse. This contested the cancellation of its building permit, granted in 2021 to the SCI located at 18 rue François Magendie, for a building of 21 housing units, an office of 158 m2, and an underground car park, on plots 21-23 bis rue Notre-Dame. The total planned floor area was 1980 m2.
And the two current buildings are none other than two Toulouse ones, these typical houses of the Pink City which are gradually disappearing to make way for buildings, often taller.
A significant impact of the project on the quality of life of local residents
Residents of rue Notre-Dame challenged the project before the administrative court, denouncing a loss of view and sunshine, caused by the difference in size between their single-storey house and the planned building. The Toulouse judges agreed with the residents by canceling the permit, thus recognizing the significant impact that this project would have had on their quality of life.
The Council of State therefore definitively validates today the reading of the administrative court, confirming that the town planning document on which the building permit was based had classified 646 m2 of protected green spaces at 21 rue Notre-Dame, i.e. the plot 518 in its entirety, apart from the parts already built, such as the location of the old dwelling house. “Part of the residential building project including the underground parking lot is located in this space. However, such a development, by its scale and its impact on the permeability of the ground, cannot be considered as constituting a construction of moderate impact”, the Toulouse magistrates ruled.
