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The relocation project of the SIMON company is the culmination of a long process, the company having transferred land to the city since the 1980s. These changes have allowed this sector of Cherbourg to gradually be assigned a residential vocation and in particular become a social housing district.  The transformation of this island of activity, close to the city center and the train station, almost contiguous to the ZAC des Bassins, between the hospital sector, the Lycée Alexis-de-Tocqueville and the Brèche du Bois life center (residential district, shops) represents a land and programmatic opportunity. The Maupas district combines significant social difficulties which have justified the establishment of several areas of intervention: - The Maupas district is partially included in the Urban Free Zone; - The Maupas district is a Sensitive Urban Area.  The reconversion of the Simon site must take this context into account and enable the improvement of living conditions in this neighborhood through its project. Furthermore, the urban issues that appear are: - in connection with La Brèche du Bois, the ORU and in particular the ZAC des Bassins, continue the evolution of the Maupas district and include the reconversion of the Simon site in the creation of a new district of Cherbourg: construction of housing, services, equipment;  - Have a program for restructuring the block.
Greener, carbon-free Europe / Environment protection and resource efficiency / Rehabilitation of industrial sites and contaminated land