In Saint-Mars-La-Brière, east of Le Mans: the photovoltaic panels of discord
The sun doesn't just make people happy... In Sarthe, in Saint-Mars-La-Brière, a photovoltaic park should see the light of day by next year on a former industrial wasteland. Some residents fear visual nuisance and consequences on the value of their home.
For now, it's just an electrical transformer lost in the middle of an industrial wasteland.
But next year, this land located in the town of Saint-Mars la Brière, about twenty kilometers east of Le Mans, should become a photovoltaic power plant.
Powered by embedgooglemaps FR & Uno card rulesMore than 12,000 solar panels will be installed. For residents, this project is too big. It will disfigure the landscape."12,600 panels, it's huge, explains Cédric Harry, a local resident, there will be a very small three-meter hedge so we will see the large pylons and that's what bothers us, when we will open our bay, we will only see that".
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To make their dissatisfaction heard, residents have launched a petition. They are about fifty to have signed it.
But what they regret the most is the lack of communication from the company behind the project.
"It was behind our backs and without ever being made aware when we are going to be very close, explains Cédric Harry, when we ask questions, we are told: "it does not concern you" when we live all close. That's what enrages us a little ".
Located on land belonging to the SNCF, the plant would provide enough electricity for the 2,700 inhabitants of Saint-Mars-La-Brière.
For the municipality, this is a godsend. So faced with the discontent of local residents, the mayor plays appeasement. “There is a public inquiry which has just ended, explains Patrice Vernhettes, the mayor of Saint-Mars, which was made for this so that they can tell us what they do not like and that we inform them. So the commissioner of inquiry gave them a certain number of answers, he will be able to forward their questions, their observations and their requests to the company which is in charge of the project".
The project must be studied by the Sarthe prefecture before the end of the summer. If approved, work should begin in the spring of 2022.