As part of the Green Fund, the Pays de la Loire region will be provided with an envelope of 11.6 million euros in 2023 to carry out conversion projects for urban, industrial or commercial wasteland.
Launched in 2023 by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion Christophe Béchu, the Green Fund aims to accelerate the ecological transition in the territories.
This fund endowed with 2 billion euros intended for local authorities is intended, among other things, for the energy renovation of buildings, the prevention of fire risks, the renaturation of cities or even land recycling, in particular by converting wasteland.
“The Pays de la Loire will benefit in 2023 from a Green Fund contribution of €93 million, including €11.6 million earmarked for the wasteland recycling measure”specifies the regional prefecture.
On September 1, the prefect of Pays de la Loire announced the list of the first 27 projects selected, spread over the entire territory. More than half concerns the transformation of former industrial and commercial sites into housing or public facilities.
Among the winners, Nantes Métropole Aménagement will thus benefit from subsidies for the depollution and rehabilitation of the former slaughterhouses of Rezé, with a view to the construction of housing and business premises.
At Château-Gontier (Mayenne), the former Adonial site will be rehabilitated to install a wood-fired boiler room, and on the former Bull site in Angers, there are plans to rebuild a high-tech factory specializing in the manufacture of supercomputers and quantum computers.
In 2021 and 2022, 81 reconversion projects had already benefited from €27 million in subsidies paid by the State, as part of the Recovery plan.
These measures aim to limit urban sprawl and the consumption of natural, agricultural and forest areas and to protect the soil against its artificialisation.
Each year, France consumes an average of 20,000 ha of natural, agricultural or forest areas, while the stock of wasteland is estimated at 150,000 ha, according to the Cerema.
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