AFTRP : établissement public d’aménagement urbain et opérateur foncier

All urban planning projects undertaken by local governments include a common bottle-neck that is often critical to their success:proper control of the spaces necessary to put their plans into practice.
The specific nature of urban projects, that of the areas they are meant to serve and the diversity of players, imply there is a need for a different approach to each case and the definition of an appropriate land-use strategy even if, in all cases, it is a matter of using and combining the components of the toolkit in order to develop a true project-based land-use scheme.

Land-use management is not relevant unless it is tied to a project that is at least sketched out.The project plan must clarify the land-use factor and come up with a strategy and means of implementation. Does this mean acquiring property in order to protect natural species or for facilities, preparing an urban expansion operation to extend the urban area or as urban renewal, or maybe to allow for the construction of public housing at prices serving to limit, or even avoid recourse to the mechanism of excessively intense land use?Each case requires the adoption of a different approach that is adapted to the particular goal in question.

These principles are even more essential in urban renewal, where the price of land - often already built up and inhabited, frequently masking pollution problems and sometimes wrought with natural or technological hazards, or regularly subjected to archaeological digs, represents an ever larger share of the operational costs, and where the time required to gain control and use permits for the lands is often much longer than in the case of urban expansion.

A “traditional” government land management agency in Ile-de-France (especially for managing land holdings in the five New Cities), but also for the Region (acquisition of land for region’s the 11 open-air spaces and recreational areas) and for its Green Spaces (30,000 acres of natural areas acquired over 30 years), the AFTRP places its experience in land-use engineering at the service of many local governments or public entities that call upon it to do so, while still pursuing some of its traditional roles.

These same skills are, moreover, mobilised in the interest of development operations carried out by the AFTRP, whether in new urbanisation, urban renewal or urban renovation. On this last point, the AFTRP’s interventions for the Urban Renovation projects in Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil and Garges-lès-Gonesse, “La Muette”, as well as its co-ownership of Grigny 2, mean that it will become the temporary proprietor of nearly one thousand residences and thereby provide both technical and social management on a short-term basis.


The Ile de Brunoy, a new natural space close to the city centre	The Plaine de Montesson, a restructuring of public properties	The Portes de Montrouge, the renovation of a city district	Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil – Urban renovation

Land-use and real estate engineering in the service of urban projects