Lille metropolis area cohesion

French teamjune 2012

Third phase of Workshop: SWOT analysis

Young Planners Working Group Planning and territorial cohesion

SWOT analysis

• Analysis of each item

▫ Governance

▫ Mobility

▫ Housing

▫ (coming soon : economic !)

Local Governance: between the administrative division and the metropolitan polarization

• The MLA is not an administrative or planning entityAn association providing good practices, a study area to support the metropolitan

dynamism

• The democratic process tend to justify the classic administrative entitiesNo policy maker is elected to conduct Lille Metropolis or MLA, the citizens may find

the policies a bit technocratic or incomprehensible.

• Administration and planning, two warring brothers ?A legal process in favour metropolitan planning but an administration that will not

disappear

Reminder: in France, intercommunal cooperation structures have not local government, they are cooperation structures

Planning as a key factor to enhance local dynamism

• SCOT (coherent territorial plan): ties together the various public urban planning policies

A kind of large scale masterplan providing objectives in attempt to guarantee territory cohesion through sectorial policies

• The local urbanism plan (PLU) at a communal regulatory level

Lille Metropolis’ PLU is made at an intercommunal level

• Cooperation beyond boundaries

Planning and development agency of Lille Metropolis and Coalfield Mission conducting studies for AML

Commercial chambers concerting economic world

Stakeholders meeting in Grand Lille Committee Toward planning supported by AML ?

Toward a metropolitan governance

Mobility and main infrastructures

Mobility and main infrastructures• FREIGHT AND WATERWAY• LMA is a hub for freight :• Easy acces to northern range of sea ports

• (like Antwerp, Rotterdam,..)• Array of waterway, road and rail services

• Delta 3 Dourges hub• North seine europe canal in 2017

• ROADS• Interface of motorways• Traffic congestion around Lille due to :

• Many people and goods• Urban developments where car is needed each day

• PUBLIC URBAN TRANSPORTATION• Need to develop offer(bus and tram-train routes)• Try to facilitate mobility :

• New hubs• Combined prices

Mobility and main infrastructures

Strenght Weakness

•the high speed rail,•waterways

•political ready to improving cross-border links

•Airport•heavy traffic and traffic jam in south of Lille important rate of people without personal car

Opportunities Threatness

•freight rail highway (Lille/paris/hendaye)•canal North Seine (Cambrai/paris)

•provision of information and the establishment of intermodal pricing throughout the LMA (public

transportation)

•subsidy of the region railway system•urban development without efficient public

transportation

Housing• Inside a territory of cohesion, the residential mobility must be possible so that

a feeling of common identity exists and so that do not develop sectors hollow of a territorial cohesion on a wider territory.

• We shall observe the sectors where the housing stock presents specificities susceptible to reveal a defect of territorial cohesion.

• WORKING ORIENTATIONS

• The constitution of the housing stock: • small housing in city center and big housing in periphery. This fact determines on

the French part more than on the Belgian part the choices of residential localization of the residents, according to their age.

• On this point, an interview with a property developer could let us understand the logics of construction which takes to this specialization.

• The state of the housing stock: • we can observe a deterioration of housing on some old worker residential areas.

In the centers-city of the Urban Community of Lille, big housing exist, but because of their state they are unhabited.

• An interview with an association which works in urban regeneration then with the Urban Community of Lille could allow us to know the means and the actors implied in the answer to this phenomenon.

Housing

• WORKING ORIENTATIONS

• The price of housing: • according to places, the prices of housings are very diversified. • An interview with a social social lessor could allow us to understand the

possibilities of rebalancing of the offer of housing.

• The localization of housing and the access to the services and to the jobs: • big infrastructures of transport keep some residential areas at a

distance. These same infrastructures connect residential areas in pole of jobs.

• An analysis of the territory will have to allow us to understand this point.

• The disparities of territories seem less important on the Belgian part. They seem particularly important inside of the territory of the Urban Community of Lille. It is also the most urban territory of the metropolitan Area of Lille.

Housing

Strenght Weakness Projets/targets

- Diversified housing stock- Patrimonial quality (common identity) of housing on some sectors- Important urban poles

- Local specializations of the offer of housing- Difficulties of maintenance of some housing-Contrasted territories

• Develop the identical aspect old residential areas•Development of a local governance

Opportunities Threatness •Promote the creation of poles:Diversified housing stock, connected with equipments and jobs, around the symbolic places.

- Attractive territory thanks to its level of equipments- Well localized not built sectors

- Fractures in the territory owed to the infrastructures of transport

• Act on the localization of the urban development•Participate in the definition of the projects of infratrsuctures•Define equipments to be developed

Thanks !