Toulouse adopts a plan to safeguard its old center

Abbreviated as PSMV, this urban planning document in preparation for ten years and which will apply to 256 hectares of the city center, aims above all to "protect and highlight the heritage of Toulouse where it is oldest", explained the councilor to the press.

It is not a question of "fixing the heritage" but of "integrating it into urban planning to see how it should evolve", he clarified.

“It will not be a museum city,” insisted his heritage assistant Annette Laigneau, responsible for preparing this document.

The collapse of a building in the city center on March 9, which led the municipal opposition to question the mayor's action in terms of securing buildings, did not impose "any modification" to the PSMV, assured this last Monday.

“This will give us, the community, the means to monitor and be more demanding than what we could do until now”, in particular by being able to force an owner wishing to carry out work to carry out a structural diagnosis, a- he added.

“And that is likely to respond to all the concerns that we have experienced in recent times.”

A study of the sector concerned, carried out as part of the preparation of the safeguard plan, concluded in particular that 28,9% of the 12.700 buildings to be included in the PSMV are "to be protected, both the interiors and the exteriors".