The Bruneseau tower will not finally see the light of day. The construction project of this 100-meter high apartment building in the future Paris Rive Gauche district (13th) was indeed abandoned this Thursday, October 14, after an unfavorable vote of elected officials meeting at the Council of Paris.
“This anachronistic and anti-ecological tower project does not correspond to the new ambitious objectives of the City of Paris in environmental matters, in particular through the revision of its local bioclimatic urban plan”, thus rejoiced the Parisian elected officials of the group. environmentalist, satisfied “to have succeeded in stopping the construction of a 100-meter-high tower of luxury private housing on the banks of the Seine”.
A “victory” according to these elected environmentalists, who nevertheless asked the City of Paris to “rethink Bruneseau’s development project in line with the environmental ambitions of the City of Paris and our needs in social housing and very social ”.
An opinion shared by … the elected representatives of the Parisian right. “It is time to take up the file from start to finish,” said Jean-Baptiste Olivier, elected Changer Paris in the 13th arrondissement, who attacked the environmental policy of the majority. “How can we, on Wednesdays, discuss urban forests and on Thursdays, secretly pass a deliberation to build a tower? Ecologists on Wednesday, concrete mixers on Thursday, ”he denounced.
“It is an overall position that we must have”, he added, taking the example of the duo laps “released so quickly”. “We talk at length about climate change advice, we create an ecological transition department, we are preparing a PLU called bioclimatic and we would let the construction of high-rise buildings that consume a lot of energy. Be consistent, review your copy, ”he said.
