The City of Paris launched the general revision of its local urban planning scheme – called PLU (plan local d’urbanisme) – in December 2020. After two years of public consultation, the draft new PLU is almost ready for adoption by the Paris council before the 2023 summer holidays. It will then be submitted to public enquiry in autumn 2023 and its final approval and entry into force is expected in mid-2024. In this insight, we present the main lines of this future PLU, which the city of Paris wanted to be “bioclimatic” and which it conceived as a tool for rebalancing the different functions of the city (housing/activity).

Welcome to the first edition of BCLP's Urban Planning & Development newsletter in Paris. The year that has just ended has been particularly rich in jurisprudence concerning urban planning law. We propose below to review 12 of the most significant decisions of this year 2022.