Purchase and hold land on behalf of local authorities (19)

The Établissement public foncier de Nouvelle-Aquitaine (EPFNA) is a public operator of the State serving local authorities to support their territorial development projects. As an expert in land matters, it provides its engineering and intervention tools to manage the land aspect of development operations.

The EPFNA is governed by Decree No. 2008-645 of June 30, 2008, amended by Decree No. 2017-837 of May 5, 2017.

It serves the territories of 10 departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Deux-Sèvres, Gironde, Haute-Vienne, Vienne, and Lot-et-Garonne (excluding the communes of the Agen agglomeration).

Its intervention allows the mobilization of land, built or unbuilt, for the realization of local authority projects, in accordance with Article 321-1 of the Urban Planning Code, with the objective of:

• promoting access to housing, particularly by supporting the production of social housing
• revitalizing urban centers, maintaining employment in the territories with the aim of territorial cohesion
• redeveloping brownfields (craft, industrial, residential, ...)
• preventing natural or technological risks

Its operational scope concerns:

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