Where can you build your house between Agde and Pézenas in the coming years ? We tell you everything

Building land will become scarce in the area in the coming years. ARCHIVE MIDI LIBRE

The Agglo has decided on the land consumption envelope for the period 2021-2040, set at 202 hectares by the SCoT of Biterrois. Discover the list of municipalities that have inherited the largest envelope of building rights in the coming years.

Its nickname is ZAN, an acronym for zero net artificialization of soils. You probably don't know it, but this law called “Climate and resilience”, designed in particular as part of the fight against climate change, is also a headache for local elected officials, whoever they may be.

Reduction in surface consumption

Think about it: combining the strong land pressure affecting our department with the requirements of this law which, to put it simply, requires municipalities to drastically slow down the pace of construction, is not an easy thing. It is the SCoT (Territorial Coherence Plan) of Biterrois which decided to allocate an envelope of 202 hectares to each member inter-municipal authority, including the Hérault Méditerranée agglomeration. “This is the result of an effort to reduce the consumption of agricultural, forest and natural areas”, explains the management of the Agglomeration services. "This overall effort on housing, on the scale of the Scot, is – 56% and is based on consumption observed between 2011 and 2021." To simplify, over the twenty years between 2021 and 2040, we will consume less than half of the land already consumed by urbanization over the ten reference years, between 2011 and 2021. A hell of a turn of the screw.

The seaside is doing well

Under these conditions, where will you be able to build your house between Agde and Pézenas in the coming years? ? You should know that it is in Vias that you will have the best chance, since the seaside resort has been allocated a quota of thirty hectares, or 14.79% of the envelope. Next behind are Portiragnes (24 hectares of buildable land, or 11.83% of the envelope), with the ZAC Saint-Anne, Pézenas and its Saint-Christol project in particular (23 hectares in total, 11.34% of the envelope), Agde (21.2 hectares to be urbanized by 2040) and Bessan (21 hectares).

Be careful though: some projects may come up against constraints, particularly in terms of drinking water capacity. “There may therefore be a change in the distribution accordingly”, they explain at the Agglo Hérault Méditerranée.
The only certainty: the price of building land is not about to drop in the territory.

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