Toulouse: where will the future colleges be?
Among the seventeen new colleges planned by 2027 in Haute-Garonne, seven are in Toulouse in non-urbanized areas such as in the city center.
With more than 3,000 additional middle school students expected over the next five years, including a thousand for this start of the school year, the Haute-Garonne departmental council has programmed a construction plan for no less than 17 middle schools by 2027, to which must be added three renovations and two extensions. Hence a record investment for the mandate of €350 million.
Among these 17 planned new establishments, seven are in Toulouse, both in new districts and in urbanized districts of the city center. In Paléficat-Grand Selve, in Malepère, two sectors that the city plans to urbanize, and in Saint-Martin-du-Touch, the first settlements have thus been carried out. Four others are distributed over the longer term: in the Patte d’Oie district; in Saint-Michel in the premises now occupied by the gendarmerie; in Compans, in the administrative city sector which has to move; and on a perimeter that goes from the Matabiau station to Jolimont, passing by the former CEAT in the process of urbanization.
In this new school year, the Department opened two colleges in Toulouse in connection with the mixed plan, that is to say after the closure of the Raymond-Badiou colleges at Reynerie and Bellefontaine. These are the establishments of Saint-Simon and Guihermy. Georges Méric, the president of the departmental council, recalled that, for Saint-Simon, the community had been forced to buy a plot of land from Vinci Immobilier for €8 million, regretting, once again, that the town hall did not make it easy for him. .
administrative city
It is therefore sometimes towards its own land that the departmental council turns. As in Aucamville, on the edge of Toulouse, on the plot of the Departmental Center for Childhood and the Family. And this is therefore the case in Place Lafourcade, at the entrance to the Saint-Michel district, where the Department owns the premises used by the gendarmerie group. This rehabilitation project will only be retained after the departure of the gendarmes, several of whose services are occupying the premises.
In the administrative city, the State has planned the relocation of the various regional offices when the new city in Jolimont will be built.
In addition, still in Toulouse, the renovation of Rosa-Parks is underway and two expansions are planned for the colleges of Ponts-Jumeaux (to reach 480 places) and Georges-Sand (which will have a capacity of 600 places).