The Park is mapping out its future

Launched in 2023, the process of revising the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park charter has gained new momentum since last February. Aiming to define a trajectory for the region over the next 15 years, a preliminary draft is expected to be voted on by local elected officials at the end of September.

A charter in the process of being drafted

After a few months of delay due to technical reasons, the drafting of the Park's new charter is now once again in an active phase and should be completed soon. Based on the expectations expressed by residents, local stakeholders, and elected officials in the spring of 2024, the Park's technical team is currently developing the measures that will guide its actions and those of the communities that signed the charter until 2041.

While the Park's missions of heritage preservation and promotion, sustainable development, and local education will remain at the heart of its work, they are expected to take on a new dimension with this new charter. The objective of this new charter will be to strengthen the Park's ambitions but also to take into account changing local realities (economic, social, etc.) and climate change. The project will be subject to a vote by the union committee next September, once the drafting is finalized.

The link at the heart of the future territorial project

Prior to the drafting process, local elected officials approved the shared vision that underpins the entire territorial project at the beginning of the year. Under the concept of "connection," they sought to place connections at the heart of the future charter: connections between people, connections between people and their environment, between environmental preservation and the economy, between towns and villages, and so on.

Working to strengthen these connections in all their dimensions means taking into consideration the relationships between individuals, their imaginations, their experiences, their worlds of belief, and their living environment. It also means working against the current of a world that is becoming fractured and polarized. Regional Natural Parks are ideal spaces for this: they revive what connects us, as humans, through nature and with it.

Meeting the communities

Municipalities and communities of municipalities in the area were involved in the charter revision process, particularly during the consultation and evaluation phases of the current charter's implementation. Ownership of the project by local authorities, who will be invited to implement it, is essential for the Park's action to be fully successful. With this in mind, it now appears necessary to present to them the outcome of the drafting work carried out in recent months.

An initial meeting is planned for the end of May with the Directors General of the services of the twelve communities concerned. This will be followed in early June by a discussion with the Presidents of these same structures. Furthermore, the preliminary draft will be presented to municipal officials at meetings of the mayors' conferences next fall.

Following the vote scheduled for late September, the draft charter will also be shared with residents, including the La Fabrica citizens' group, which took part in the consultation process. See you in the fall!