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The cross-border dimension at the heart of the Grand Est Region's "SRADDET" Plan

May 2018

The cross-border dimension at the heart of the Grand Est Region's "SRADDET" Plan

The new French regions have to draw up a "Schéma régional d’aménagement, de développement durable et d’égalité des territoires" (SRADDET – Regional Spatial Planning, Sustainable Development and Territorial Equality Plan). In order to set out a unifying political project for its territory, the Grand Est Region has chosen to place the cross-border dimension at the heart of its actions and to involve its cross-border partners in drawing it up.

What is the SRADDET?

The SRADDET is the first obligatory and prescriptive regional planning document, and is forward-looking in focus (with a horizon of 2050). It is a unifying plan that rationalises and brings consistency to the strategic aspects that impact spatial planning: balance and equality between territories, infrastructures of benefit to the region, opening up rural territories, habitat, economical management of space, transport intermodality and development, energy management and recovery, combating climate change, air pollution, protection and restoration of biodiversity, and waste prevention and management. (The NOTRE Act, Article 10, Art. L. 4251-1.)

A unifying cross-border project

The Grand Est Region has signalled its ambition to make its SRADDET "a unifying project that is not only the strategy of the regional institution but also of the territories that make up the region". That is why it launched "a broad process of consultation and dialogue (seminars, networked meetings, written contributions, territorial meetings, etc.) with its territories and the neighbouring territories in order to draw up this plan." It will submit its SRADDET in 2019.
Following four co-construction seminars that took place in the spring/summer of 2017 (spatial planning, transport, biodiversity-water and climate-air-energy), a cross-border seminar on 20 November 2017 brought together more than 200 participants, notably from the neighbouring regions: Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, North-West Switzerland, Luxembourg and Wallonia.
This co-construction of the SRADDET has also taken the form of the numerous written contributions received, including six from cross-border territories: IDELUX-AIVE in Belgian Luxembourg (4 joint municipalities), the Upper Rhine Council, the Land of Baden-Württemberg, the Regionalverband Mittelrer Oberrhein, the Regionalverband Südlicher Oberrhein, as well as a joint contribution from the five Eurodistricts in the region.

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The joint contribution of the Eurodistricts [FR]

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