Zoning of local planning plans in the Somme department

Zoning of local planning plans in the Somme department
The Urban Planning Code defines four types of areas regulated in the local planning plan (R.123-5 to 8): urban areas (U), areas to be urbanised (AU), agricultural areas (A) and natural and forest areas (N). These areas shall be demarcated on one or more graphic documents. A regulation is attached to each area. The by-law may lay down different rules, depending on whether the purpose of the construction relates to housing, hotel accommodation, offices, commerce, crafts, industry, agricultural or forestry operations or warehouse functions. These categories are restrictive (Art. R.123-9). Areas already urbanised are classified as U areas where existing or under construction public facilities have sufficient capacity to serve the buildings to be installed.Can be classified as AU zones, areas of a natural nature of the municipality intended to be opened for urbanisation depending on whether or not the existing equipment on the periphery is sufficient to serve the buildings to be installed. There are two types of AU zone: “constructible” and “inconstructible” AU zones. Areas A may be classified as areas of the municipality, whether or not equipped, to be protected because of the agronomic, biological or economic potential of agricultural land.Can be classified as N zones, areas of the municipality equipped or not, to be protected either by reason of the quality of the sites, natural habitats, landscapes and their interest, in particular from the aesthetic, historical or ecological point of view, or because of the existence of forestry or their nature as natural areas.- Within the N zones, can be délimités:des areas within which possibilities of transfer of right to be built may be carried out (transfer of COS),- areas of limited size and capacity where construction is possible under siting and density conditions.