Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot

Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
No. of communes	62
Established	2001
Seat	Albert
Government
– President	Stéphane Demilly
Population (1999)
– Total	27,000
Budget	9,776,224 € in 2006
Website	http://www.paysducoquelicot.com/

The Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot is a communauté de communes in the Somme département and in the Picardie région of France.

Composition

This Communauté de communes includes 62 communes:

1. Acheux-en-Amiénois
2. Albert
3. Arquèves
4. Auchonvillers
5. Authie
6. Authuille
7. Aveluy
8. Bayencourt
9. Bazentin
10. Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre
11. Beaumont-Hamel
12. Bécordel-Bécourt
13. Bertrancourt
14. Bouzincourt
15. Bray-sur-Somme
16. Buire-sur-l'Ancre
17. Bus-lès-Artois
18. Cappy
19. Chuignolles
20. Coigneux
21. Colincamps
22. Contalmaison
23. Courcelette
24. Courcelles-au-Bois
25. Dernancourt
26. Éclusier-Vaux
27. Englebelmer
28. Étinehem
29. Forceville
30. Fricourt
31. Frise
32. Grandcourt
33. Harponville
34. Hédauville
35. Hérissart
36. Irles
37. La Neuville-lès-Bray
38. Laviéville
39. Léalvillers
40. Louvencourt
41. Mailly-Maillet
42. Mametz
43. Marieux
44. Méaulte
45. Méricourt-sur-Somme
46. Mesnil-Martinsart
47. Millencourt
48. Miraumont
49. Morlancourt
50. Ovillers-la-Boisselle
51. Pozières
52. Puchevillers
53. Pys
54. Raincheval
55. Saint-Léger-lès-Authie
56. Senlis-le-Sec
57. Thiepval
58. Thièvres
59. Toutencourt
60. Varennes, Somme
61. Vauchelles-lès-Authie
62. Ville-sur-Ancre

Responsibilities

The communes of the communauté delegate their representatives with the following responsibilities:

• Establishment of a joint development zone
• Help for the communes in the development of their town planning documents.
• Economic and land use planning
• Studies, programming, land acquisition and creation of the air industry in Haute Picardie and an economic area near Méaulte.
• Acquisition of land, planning and management of areas of community interest of more than 1 hectare.
• Studies on water quality.
• Studies on flood control
• Collection, treatment and recovery of household waste.
• Studies and action from residents for the schedule for improving housing.
• Information from landlords and tenants for local housing
• Creation or alteration and maintenance of roads in the public domain known as "intercommunal" defined on the basis of
  criteria including: School routes, business roads and tourist paths ^[1].
• Removal of snow on the roads
• Financing of the local mission
• Workshops during the school holidays.
• Leisure centre with or without accommodation centres for the young
• Music Schools
• Library
• Creation of a community newspaper
• Transportation
• Fishing Schools
• Promoting tourism and hospitality.
• Maintenance of hiking routes defined by the Department

Budget and Taxation

The Community is funded by:

• Single business tax (at a rate of 10.29% in 2006), which replaces the taxes previously collected by the communes.
• A refuse collection tax.

Economic Development

• 'Platform aero-industrial' to be carried out as a joint project with the Department of the Somme.
  The project costs of €40 million is to be funded by the European Union (22.5%), the region Picardie (30%), the département (30%),
  Airbus (11.25%) and the communauté (6.25%). As such, the communauté will pay €468,000 in 2008.
• The business park at Albert.
• The draft joint development zone located between Méaulte and Bécordel-Bécourt between Airbus and the airport at Albert.

Wind power development

The Community Council of 12 November 2007 approved a draft covering 19 communes, mainly in the north of the territory,
which could accommodate wind turbines, if the Prefect approves the application.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

Sources

• le splaf {fr}
• la base aspic {fr}

Notes

1. ^ NB: The list of intercommunal roads is attached to the prefectorial order approving the statutes

• This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on April 9th 2008.