Controversial buy of land in Prilly: the correct appeals

The desire of the Metropolis of Prilly (VD) to train its proper of pre-emption on land price 62 million francs nonetheless doesn’t move among the many right-wing and middle events of the commune. They filed an attraction with the Council of State on Thursday.

This 20,000 m2 plot was within the sights of three patrons, however the Municipality determined to intervene and switch its proper of pre-emption to the Lausanne Cooperative Housing Firm (SCHL). That is answerable for buying the land and constructing social housing on it.

The Municipal Council validated this operation after two stormy classes, throughout which the opponents had left the room on the time of the vote. PLR, UDC, Vert’libéraux and Middle don’t nonetheless admit to being overwhelmed and, in a joint press launch, announce Thursday that they’ve seized the Council of State.

For these 4 events, the correct to info of municipal councilors has been “severely flouted”. In accordance with them, the Municipality lacked transparency by refusing to ship them “an vital authorized opinion” on the validity of the choice they had been known as upon to make.

“Authorized Irregularities”

In addition they choose that the Municipality of the left (2 PS, 2 Greens, 1 PLR) didn’t respect the Vaud legislation on the preservation and promotion of the rental inventory (LPPL). This doesn’t permit a municipality to surrender its proper of first refusal with out a public public sale, as was the case with the CMHC, they consider.

They nonetheless criticize an assault on financial freedom and the assure of property. “A state authority can not meddle within the relations between events to a contract in accordance with its goodwill”, they write.

The choice having nonetheless been validated “by a decimated municipal council, ignoring a number of authorized irregularities and violating the laws of the municipal council”, the correct and the middle say they’re “compelled” to file an attraction “to acquire a court docket determination on this file.”

For his or her half, the PS and the Greens had justified this operation to counter “the appetites of property builders who needed to create high-end housing” on the plot in query. Of their press launch issued after the acceptance of the municipal council, they accused the correct of not desirous to act within the pursuits of households, however of defending property builders.

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