EL3 category public utility easements in the Compiégnois country

Public utility easements are administrative limitations on the right to property, they are instituted, by one or more acts, for the benefit of public persons, concessionaires of public services or public works, or private persons engaged in an activity in the public interest. The collection and conservation of public utility easements is a sovereign task of the State, which must bring them to the attention of local and regional authorities so that they may annex them to their urban planning documents. The public utility easements concerned are those defined by Articles L. 126-1 and R. 126-1 of the Urban Planning Code and their annexes. Walking easement: The riparian properties of a watercourse or a federal lake are encumbered on each shore of an easement of 3, 25 meters, so-called walking easement. This easement prohibits riparian landowners from planting trees or closing by hedges or otherwise. Towing easement: Easement in respect of federal watercourses where there is a tow or operating road of interest to the navigation service. The easement strikes the properties in a space of 7.80 meters wide along the edges of these federal watercourses, as well as on the islands where it is needed. Riparian owners may not plant trees or close by hedges or otherwise only at a distance of 9.75 metres on the edges where there is a towing or operating path. Easement for the use of fishermen: On the encumbered lands there are walk and tow easements, a so-called “fisherman’s use” easement. Article L2131-2 of the CGPPP provides that “Any owner, tenant, farmer or holder of a right in rem, riparians of a watercourse or a federal lake shall be required to leave the land encumbered by that walking easement for the use of the manager of that watercourse or lake, fishermen and pedestrians.”In addition, “Along the navigation channels, fishermen and pedestrians may use the towing road and the portion of the bank forming part of the public domain, to the extent that it permits the operation of navigation.” By decision of the administrative authority, the right referred to in the preceding subparagraph may exceptionally be deleted either for reasons of general interest, i.e. for safety reasons when banks are included in industrial establishments. This data has been digitised after consultation with VNF services, following the non-availability of GIS data to date. These should be available by 2020 on the GeoPortail. They will replace the digitised data by the GIS department of Agglomeration of the Compiègne Region.