Auchan asks for an extension of 3900 m2 of the commercial surface
The supermarket and the shopping arcade would expand in loco of the current parking which, shone, would migrate eastward.
A file has just been deposited aiming at extending the 2400 m2 hypermarket and the 1500 m2 shopping arcade. She must be examined by the departmental committee of commercial development on March 18th of this year.

« The file of request of extension arrived yesterday by post», points out Franck Heyde-Bétancourt, the manager of office of the president of the community of agglomeration Martine Lignières-Cassou (currently in displacement).

Auchan therefore decided to expand. Plan will be examined on March 18th of this year by the departmental committee of commercial development (CDAC). André Arribes, the mayor of Bizanos, is likely to assemble in it as representative of the village the closest to the catchment area of shop. He confirms also to know about file.

Both men will not say about it more. At present, discretion stays of bet on subject. On the side of the prefecture as of the manager of Auchan, Jacques Walter, whom we tried to close properly unsuccessfully for several days. It is necessary to say that a previous plan of extension which envisaged 2500 m2 of garden centre and 700 m2 of gallery commercial additional, had not been able to come into the world some years ago.

This time, the extension of asked commercial surface is, according to our information, 2400 m2 for the hypermarket and 1500 m2 for the shopping arcade. This double enlargement would be made on the current parking of the shopping centre. A new parking would be more created in the East, in loco of the group of houses bought back on the side of the street of the Does.

Respect for commercial balances

On what will decide CDAC this time? 5 elected representatives who assemble in it (besides 3 persons qualified in consumption of sustainable development and of town and country planning): mayor of Pau Martine Lignières-Cassou, a representative of the community of Agglo (who cannot being Martine Lignières-Cassou), Jean-Pierre Mimiague for the Country of the Big Pau, a representative of general advice and the mayor of the village the closest to the catchment area of shop (Bizanos).

André Arribes does not take a dim view of the new plan of Auchan. «Without anticipating my position, I am as a matter of principle of a readjustment of commercial establishment in relation to the West, he points out. There is a future in huge population with the strong urbanization of Idron, Lée, Sendets, Artigueloutan. It deserves rather important and various commercial surfaces».

On the side of the paloise municipality, they do not get wet too much at the moment: «Auchan plays an important role, and it is a file on which they will have an attentive look».