The Cotech heritage, culture and sport met last Thursday at the end of the afternoon at the school complex. Compared to that on the subject of regional planning, it was less attractive since a dozen people participated, unlike about fifty in the first.
However, the exchanges were sustained. It was a question of seeing how in the regulatory framework proposed by the state services it was impossible to conserve the heritage of Saint-Martin and to build public sports infrastructures in the red zone.
Several people recalled that the population has lived and built on the coast for years, even centuries, in Saint-Martin. That it has always known how to protect itself by building, for example, wavebreak walls.
Heritage protection was asked: "what will happen to the houses by the sea which are part of Saint Martin's heritage, if they are in the red zone and if they cannot be rebuilt?" "We must protect them and not shave them," commented a resident while stressing that cultural competence is the responsibility of the state. "It is up to the State to protect our heritage," he conceives. And to recall the European flood directive whose objective is "to provide a framework for member states to reduce the negative consequences of floods on human health, economic activity, the environment and cultural heritage." (soualigapost.com)
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