Toulouse cable car: the court rejects the appeal of an overflown owner
The administrative court of Toulouse has just rejected the appeal of the owners of a student residence overflown by the Téléo cable car who complained about the nuisance and the financial depreciation of their building.
After the rejection of the Friends of the Earth request which provided for the suspension of work on the third metro line in Toulouse, the administrative court has just rendered a second decision in favor of the Toulouse public transport union on another file, that of the cable car. . The magistrates reject the request of the owners of a building, mainly comprising a student residence, located at 66, chemin du Vallon, at the foot of the Rangueil hospital, and which is directly flown over by Téléo.
The mutualist group MACSF (Mutual insurance for health professionals), the syndicate of co-owners and the Association for the dissemination of preventive medicine (ADIMEP), at the origin of the request, deplored “a significant impact on the propertygenerating noise and visual nuisances and inconvenience for the occupants, as well as a depreciation of the value of this building”.
In detail, three documents were attacked: the compatibility of the local urban plan of Toulouse Métropole, the decree of the prefect on derogations from the bans on the destruction of protected animal species and the project declaration of Tisséo Collectivités. The claims for the first two documents were deemed inadmissible. On the project statement, the court “held that the cable car project represents progress in terms of intermodality. It noted that its environmental impact, insofar as its footprint concerns only three stations and five pylons, and its level of sound impact are lower than the other modes of transport examined”, writes the jurisdiction in a press release.
During the hearing on November 25, the public rapporteur had proposed the rejection of the requests.
Téléo was put into service last May. It relies on the Oncopole, the Rangueil hospital and the Paul-Sabatier university, flying over the Garonne, the Pech-David hill and the Bellevue high school.