Discussed this Thursday 15 December in the city council, the budget guidelines were an opportunity to learn about the city’s investment choices in 2023, the endowment of which will amount to almost 9 million euros – excluding debt.
Castle of the Dukes of Bourbon. In 2023, the complete renovation of the old castle and the esplanade is planned. “We are about to empty the castle and completely renovate the rooms. The objective is to make it a permanent museum, with a historical vocation to trace the history of the city from the 11th century to the 21st century, and a temporary exhibition museum ”, sums up Mayor Frédéric Laporte (LR).
Villa de la Louviere. “We are working on a restructuring that will not allow for a definitive reopening of the site, but for visits. We will discover the life of a bourgeois family at the beginning of the 1900s, thus retracing the industrial history of the city. »
prize A museum project on the industrial age under study at the Château de la Louvière in Montluçon
City Hall. “The idea is to restore the monument to how it was originally designed,” explains Frédéric Laporte. In particular, it is planned to make the glass roof visible again from the congress hall, but also from the future wedding hall that the city wants to build as well as from the passage that borders the municipal council hall. The project also includes the restoration of the fresco in the conference hall.
you put them. In 2023, work is planned on the crossings of the city, and not only on the Saint-Pierre bridge. In rue des Bernardines, near Monoprix, the bridge has a structural problem, for example. Work will also be done on the Châtelet bridge to create cycle paths and redevelop the intersection on the rue Paul-Constans side.
Lamaron. A project for the “renaturation” of the stream is in progress. “We want to break the concrete to find some greenery there”, decrypts Frédéric Laporte, who wishes to see more Montluçonnais take this crossroads.
Jean-Nègre leisure centre. The rehabilitation will continue with the demolition and reconstruction of the rear part, thus developing the dormitories.
Cultural reserves. The development of the cultural reserves will start on the former site of S2MI. The reserves of the old castle will be transferred there.
Guillaume Bellavoine
