7 in 2009 while she was of about 2 to 2

PROCOS provides the first State of the liberalisation of commercial settlements allowed by the law of modernization of economy (LME). In 2009, crisis and decline in consumption and in a market French already saturated, a new record volume of commercial surfaces was beaten. There is a trend similar to previous years. Even if developers begin to slow their production of commercial surfaces, the number of projects authorized by local communities is considerable. Today, it is urgent to redefine a strategic approach to trade settlements because the question of the territorial balance was never raised as acuity.

The LME has accelerated the expansion of commercial surfaces: 4 million new square meters in 2009

Since LME, any commercial project is subject to prior authorisation, once it develops a sales area than a worn threshold of 300 m to 1.000 m; However, the opening of a less than 1.000 m surface is relieved of authorisation procedure. In 2009, nearly 3 million square meters of commercial surfaces were allowed by the new Commissions departmental of development Commercial (CDAC) in metropolitan France. Taking also into account the projects included in the range of 300 to 1,000 m (previously subject to departmental boards of equipment Commercial - CDEC), or more than one million m additional, more than 4 million square meters of commercial surfaces will have been produced this year. Thus, despite the crisis, the production of commercial surfaces continues at a very steady pace. It reaches this year its highest level after the record years of 2007 (3.5 million square meters) and 2008 (3.1 million authorized m which add extensions surfaces developed during the transitional period from September to November 2008, estimated between 500,000 and a million of square meters).

A pressure which will continue in the next years, on the outskirts of cities

The volume of commercial sets projects appears shifted to economic conditions. The crisis is here and overproduction was facing a decline in consumption but also to a certain timidity on the part of the signs. These two factors make it essential urgent reaction of local elected officials, representatives of our cities and guarantors of our territorial equilibrium. According to the Observatory of the projects of commercial sets of Procos, 593 projects (7.432.000 m) are already planned for the next 5 years, which makes the France the European countries in which the largest number of projects and m are planned. If the number of projects is the first decline since the 1990s, it remains at a very high level, and does not indicate a reversal of the situation: this trend will continue. 80 of project (5.900.000 m) surfaces are operations of periphery with 52 of the parks of commercial activities (3.780.000 m) and 28 of malls (2.120.000 m). Downtown (890.000 m) shopping centres represent only 12 of the draft surfaces. Among these 593 projects, 234 have already obtained their authorization; they represent a new record for volume of 3.213.000 commercial surfaces m (of which 30 - 986.000 m - open in 2010). 82 of the authorized surfaces are on the periphery (2.635.000 m), 1.480.000 m as parks of activities commercial (with 2/3 of creation, 1/3 of extension), 1.155.000 m in malls (with new 2/3 of creation, 1/3 extension).

Overproduction of unwarranted, and anachronistic commercial m

This evolution follows economic logic: the household consumption fell to 0.9 in 2008 and 0.7 in 2009, while she was of about 2 to 2.5 per year on average to 2007; the National Council of commercial Centres (CNCC) view-3.9 the decline in attendance of the shopping centres on the year 2009. This overproduction, no monitoring of the application, risk creating a phenomenon of "cannibalization" of businesses, closures, and so commercial brownfield development. Finally, it will undermine the balances between cities and peripheral centres, already very precarious, as the evolution of our society makes necessary dynamic and varied fabric of businesses in the city centre: densification of habitat town centre, ageing of the pander

For a strategic approach to territorial equilibrium

These two reports show the need for a strategic approach to the territorial balance and settlements commercial, in the continuity of the Grenelle of the environment, proposing several measures to combat urban sprawl, preservation of territorial equilibrium, control of movements, etc. Commercial urbanism must be addressed specifically in a founding act on several key principles. The Procos Federation advocates, that the commercial part of the SCOT be strengthened and made mandatory. It also supports the application of new architectural, urban and landscape integration requirements, to improve the quality of the new programmes but with a cost control avoiding the escalation of rents for the new created businesses. Finally, it calls for the creation of new tools for land control, mounting and porting operations, to address the issue of the re-qualification of existing sites, priority of degraded city entries. The Government had committed in the review of the LME to file prior to fi n 2008 Bill consolidate commercial urbanism and had loaded the Charié member of a mission in this sense. It brought together all of the actors in the trade, who have worked together with proposals for practical and applicable solutions. This reform must go to its end: it is essential for the cities and trade, including the anarchic development continues under the transitional regime established by the LME.