Energizing market towns

An innovative and partnership-based scheme initiated by the Departmental Council

• During its sessions on June 25 (general guidelines) and November 5, 2018 (operational scheme), the Departmental Assembly confirmed its desire to organize and structure the Eurelian territory by relying on a new scheme focused on market towns.
• The Departmental Council associated the State, the Centre-Val de Loire Regional Council, and the Banque des territoires with the approach. This partnership materialized with the signing of the “Action bourgs-centres en Eure-et-Loir” protocol on December 17, 2018, and its amendment signed on August 31, 2022.

The objectives

• Avoid a divide between rural areas and urbanized territories or those located in the Parisian fringes, and guarantee all residents of Eure-et-Loir equal access to public services and facilities.
• Promote a balanced territorial network based on centers of centrality and balance equipped with the local services necessary for maintaining the life of the territories.
• Articulate the approaches of all actors/funders towards “market towns.”
• Initiate a project-based, rather than counter-based, logic with these territories.

The strengths of the approach

• Encourage the 33 selected communes to reflect on the challenges of their territories in order to energize them: definition…