Actualité de l’outre-mer

• Main Author: Blanchet, Dominique
• Language: French
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Martin Island
• Online Access: https://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=GRIDAU_COLLE_2008_01_0679

Saint-Martin Island will receive power to determine land use, construction and housing rules as from January 1st, 2012. Saint-Bartélémy, another overseas community created by the organic law of February 21 has exercised such power since July 15, 2007 and adopted a Land use Code. By extension, Mayotte is subjected to more and more legal provisions.Belonging to the common law of land use. Overseas departments and regions that, like Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, inherit from new normative powers that they will be able to use in relation to land use – a domain where the statutes adopted for the year grant little attention to local specificities and therefore triggered questions. Some legal provisions of the territorial communities and environment general Code that will certainly have an impact in terms of the exercise of powers in the land use field were, to a limited extend to French Polynesia and to New Caledonia. Hence 2007 offers a contrasted situation overseas in the field of land planning, land use and housing.