Clermont-Ferrand, France
City population: 280036
Duration: 2011 – ongoing
Implementation status: Ongoing
Scale: Micro-scale: District/neighbourhood level
Project area: 100000 m2
Type of area: Residential
Last updated: November 2021

Champratel Eco-District is mainly a housing development plan with new green space areas which will be part of the green corridor of the city. "It will be a real "Garden-District" to offer participatory housing: "For La Grande Plaine, the city of Clermont-Ferrand wanted to go beyond the simple redevelopment of a neighborhood by implementing an innovative approach: participatory housing. It's a new way of collectively designing, creating and managing individual homes" (Ref. 11). It will offer harmonious urban forms and vast green spaces. It will mainly offer a concordance between two desires: the proximity of the city and a pleasant living environment" (Ref. 2). Three main green spaces have been created including a meadow in the north, a green square Rose-Parks to create a meeting place for the inhabitants, and diverse gardens (some of which are maintained and others which are wild" (Ref. 5).

Champratel eco-district
Champratel eco-district
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Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Grey infrastructure featuring greens
  • Alley or street trees and other street vegetation
  • Parks and urban forests
  • Large urban parks or forests
  • Pocket parks/neighbourhood green spaces
  • Green corridors and green belts
  • Community gardens and allotments
  • Community gardens
  • Blue infrastructure
  • Lakes/ponds
  • Green areas for water management
  • Rain gardens

Key challenges

  • Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Water management (SDG 6)
  • Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Habitat and biodiversity restoration
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Environmental quality
  • Air quality improvement
  • Noise reduction
  • Regeneration, land-use and urban development
  • Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
  • Inclusive and effective governance (SDG 16)
  • Inclusive governance
  • Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
  • Social interaction
  • Health and well-being (SDG 3)
  • Enabling opportunities for physical activity
  • Creation of opportunities for recreation
  • Economic development and employment (SDG 8)
  • Real estate development
  • Cultural heritage and cultural diversity
  • Promotion of cultural diversity
  • Sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12)
  • Sustainable consumption

Focus

Creation of new green areas, Other

Project objectives

-"The Champratel eco-neighborhood is a response to the detriment of urban sprawl." -"Create public spaces that promote biodiversity, allow alternative management of rainwater, a reasoned use of energies or even thermal and phonic comfort to the most peaked standards."(Ref. 4) -"Respect the environment by considering the sober management of water, limiting the movements of land at the time of construction, preferring local species for plantations, allowing alternative management of rainwater ..." (Ref. 5) "For La Grande Plaine, the city of Clermont-Ferrand wanted to go beyond the simple redevelopment of a neighborhood by implementing an innovative approach: participatory housing. It's a new way of collectively designing, creating and managing individual homes" (Ref. 11)

Implementation activities

"In Champratel, the plant will be visible everywhere in different forms. The idea is to preserve and strengthen the natural continuities between Champratel and its surroundings by opening the city to the landscape that surrounds it. And to vary the pleasures, some green areas will be very gardened while others will show a wild and freer image." "Three public spaces, very green, which will cross the district from north to south, between the agricultural plain and the city of Plaine." (Ref. 6) "Rainwater is recovered in swales and ponds, herbaceous plants that are resistant to both dryness and moisture." (Ref. 7) "The walk of the "Platanes" will cross the district from west to east. It will meet the three tributaries north-south and will include gardens of nature: small salons offering break and meeting. A square will cross this walk". "Community gardens could be arranged" "plantations of local species will be privileged"(Ref. 6) Key figures and stages of the project (Ref. 1): 2016: delivery of 21 housing units: Protéa residence 2017: end of thermal rehabilitation in the buildings on rue Flamine 2018: two operations delivered, for a total of 53 housing units. 2020: two operations delivered, for a total of 40 housing units. 2021: two operations delivered representing 92 housing units. 2027: delivery of the remaining housing units to achieve the creation of 600 housing units in total. -"Respect the environment by considering the sober management of water, limiting the movements of land at the time of construction, preferring local species for plantations, allowing alternative management of rainwater ..." (Ref. 5)

Climate-focused activities

Climate change adaptation:

  • Implement sustainable urban drainage infrastructure (e.g. to make space for water)
  • Increase the use of climate-resilient plant species (resistant to drought, fire, and pests)

Biodiversity conservation or restoration-focused activities

Biodiversity restoration:

  • Restore species (native, endangered, or unspecified)
  • Restore ecological connectivity
  • Other

Main beneficiaries

  • Local government/Municipality
  • Citizens or community groups
  • Marginalized groups: Socio-economically disadvantaged populations (e.g. low-income households, unemployed), Other

Governance

Management set-up

  • Government-led

Type of initiating organisation

  • National government
  • Local government/municipality

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Co-planning (e.g. stakeholder workshops, focus groups, participatory mapping)
  • Dissemination of information and education
  • Consultation (e.g. workshop, surveys, community meetings, town halls)
  • Joint implementation (e.g. tree planting)
  • Co-management/Joint management
  • Citizen oversight (e.g. boards, advisory)
  • Other

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

"This project undertaken today by the city of Clermont-Ferrand is the fruit of a reflection carried out for several years already to respond to various urban problems." (Ref. 12) "This project is part of an ANRU [French] "National Agency for Urban Renewal" program signed in 2006" (Ref. 8 and 9) -Private sectors are in charge of the work (AMO Urbanism and landscape Agency) (Ref. 12, page 14) -"The Region has subsidized the public spaces inside the district, outside the Plaine des Jeux" (Ref. 10). -"The City of Clermont-Ferrand entrusts an important mission to Living Cities: to make the heart of the metropolis accessible to all In 2018, while the city of Clermont-Ferrand was defining a new direction to complete the construction of the La Grande Plaine district, Villes Vivantes, a private company aiming to have social impact, developed a new concept, the “BAMBA”, based on the production of tailor-made building lots. sold directly to residents. -At the very beginning of 2019, the city of Clermont-Ferrand opted for this proposal and it is therefore at the foot of the volcanoes that the "BAMBA" will be implemented in France for the first time! The Living Cities teams and its co-contractors (Regain, Dasa, Récipro-Cité, DGD Avocats, Paul Vincent Architecte) will adapt the development plan to make room for more than 100 building plots and offer all developers. project coaching and creative, independent and personalized expertise" (Ref. 13).

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Yes ("This project is part of an ANRU program signed in 2006" (Ref. 8 and 9))
... a local policy or strategy? Unknown

Financing

Total cost

More than €4,000,000

Source(s) of funding

  • Public national budget
  • Public local authority budget

Type of funding

  • Earmarked public budget

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Climate change
  • Lowered local temperature
  • Strengthened capacity to address climate hazards/natural disasters
  • Environmental quality
  • Improved air quality
  • Green space and habitat
  • Promotion of naturalistic styles of landscape design for urban development
  • Increased green space area
  • Other

Economic impacts

  • Increased property prices
  • Stimulate development in deprived areas

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Social justice and cohesion
  • Improved social cohesion
  • Improved liveability
  • Increased visibility and opportunity for marginalised groups or indigenous peoples
  • Increased opportunities for social interaction
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Improved physical health
  • Improved mental health
  • Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
  • Cultural heritage and sense of place
  • Promotion of cultural diversity
  • Increased appreciation for natural spaces
  • Other

Type of reported impacts

Achieved impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

1. Avaialable at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
2. Clermont Ferrand (n.d). "La grande plaine". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
3. Clermont Ferrand (n.d). "La grande plaine, c’est quoi ?". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
4. Clermont Ferrand (n.d). "Habiter à la Grande Plaine". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
5. Clermont Ferrand (n.d). "La vie du quartier". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
6. Clermont Ferrand (n.d). "Les actualités". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
7. Clermont Auvergne Métropole (n.d). "Biodiversité". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
8. Ville de Clermont Ferrand (2016). “Plan d’Aménagement and de Développement Durables”. Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
9. ANRU (2010). "Urbanisme durable PRU de l’agglomération Clermontoise". (Website not available in 2020).
10. Clermont Infos (2018). "LA PLAINE DES JEUX INAUGURÉE À CHAMPRATEL". Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
11. Villes Vivantes (n.d). "BAMBA: Un projet de recherche & développement open source". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
12. Clermont Communaute (2016). "Visite dea quartiers NPRU de l'agglomeration clermontoise: dossier de synthese". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
13. Clermont Ferrand (n.d). "BAMBA, un nouveau visage pour le quartier de La Grande Plaine". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 22, 2020).
Champratel eco-district
Champratel eco-district
https://passagersdesvilles.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/champratel-des-perspectives-a-la-realite/
Champratel eco-district
Champratel eco-district
https://passagersdesvilles.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/champratel-des-perspectives-a-la-realite/
Champratel eco-district planning process
Champratel eco-district planning process
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Champratel eco-district
Champratel eco-district
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