Sowing and planting to protect the Malbosc hillside from concreting

L’on a semé dimanche dernier pour la préservation de ce site naturel.

This December 8, an awareness-raising operation was carried out on the site.

Amazing Malbosc hillside: a vast, very green meadow at the end of autumn, trees all around, an immense sky swept by a cold and brisk wind. This Sunday, December 8, about fifty people responded to the invitation of the Malbosc hillside Collective and the Garden Sowers network to plant stones, pips and young shrubs along Henri-Lagattu Street.

The participants benefited from the advice of an experienced association, Le Verger Partagé de Castries. Attached to the integrity of this natural space in the heart of inhabited neighborhoods, all were keen to confirm their commitment to refuse its artificialization.

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The collective whose paper and online petitions, still open, have collected 2,100 and 5,400 signatures respectively, recognizes progress in the modifications of the Plui-c project stopped on October 8 by the Metropolis with the abandonment of the project of a Zac dedicated to the urbanization of the site, now called Parc Henri-Lagattu.

The risk of artificialization is still current

However, its members remain concerned. Because the majority of the plots remain classified as an area to be urbanized and because a Development and Programming Orientation (the OAP of said park), considered imprecise in its objectives by the collective, provides for developments for sports, cultural activities and public facilities that can reach ten meters high. For the collective, the implementation of this OAP will result in the creation of automobile roads, night lighting and underground networks. An artificialization contrary to the preservation of islands of freshness and reservoirs of biodiversity according to them. These arguments were presented to the personalities who came to participate in the sowing, including elected officials from the city from the majority (Marie Massard, Manu Reynaud, Stéphane Jouault) and the opposition (Catherine Ribot, Coralie Mantion, MPs Nathalie Oziol and Jean-Louis Roumégas).

So many visits that underline that the hillside is an important issue.

The sowing and planting carried out will be protected by fences that will be installed shortly by Serm, the owner of the land, following mediation by Stéphane Jouault, delegate for nature in the city. The previous plantations having been mown. A limited mowing protocol for the site is currently being studied by Serm, Stéphane Jouault and the collective. A way to perpetuate the attachment and contribution of the sowers of this Sunday to the rural landscape of the northwest of Montpellier.

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