Near Toulouse. What is this former unknown industrial site that the Loto will help rehabilitate?
By David Saint-Sernin
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This is a moment eagerly awaited by abandoned heritage sites. Monday, August 29, 2022, the Heritage Mission 2022carried by Stephane Bernunveiled the 100 projects that she will support this year with her Heritage Lotto.
As a reminder, a Super Lotto of 13 million euros minimum will be organized in September. Part of the ticket will be reversed Heritage Foundation for each grid played.
A former industrial site
For this 5e edition, the site selected in Haute-Garonne is a former unknown industrial site located at south of toulouse : this is the former Rondé-Oustau brickyard located in Muret, on the banks of the Louge river.
End of the activity in 1957
The rehabilitation project is substantial. The brickyard, built in 1880, ceased to operate after a fire in 1957.
“At the height of its production, the factory employed around fifty workers, but on December 29, 1957, a fire broke out and marked the end of industrial production at the factory; Taking into account the evolution of the techniques of manufacture of tiles and bricks, its reconstruction quickly appears unthinkable. The building is not in a condition to accommodate a project in its current state, its restoration is therefore essential to perpetuate this industrial heritage”, recalls the Heritage Foundation.
“Give a vocation to the site”
If the owners, “supported by the artists already adopted on the site, wish to give the place a new vocation, granted around heritage, creativity and the transmission of knowledge”, indicates the Foundation, the amount to rehabilitate this old site unknown industrialist, is colossal: 2.2 million euros.
Collecting such an amount, or approaching it, could “stabilize the situation of the buildings of the old brickyard, clear part of the building, insulate it, renovate the facades, bring the networks up to standard before making it possible to enhance outdoor spaces, to “protect the biodiversity setting represented by the lake and the gardens”, specifies the Foundation.
Start of work in 2023?
Finally, renovation and development of the other buildings on the site are planned: the development of the mansion into accommodation and the modernization of the old stables.
If the funds are sufficient, the works could start in 2023 for a finalization in 2024.
For the past two years, the sites selected have been located in the Lauragais, with the Faget mill and pumping station in 2020, then with the Saint-Martin chapel, commune of Vaudreuille near Revel, in 2021.
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