7 in 2009 while she was o about 2 to 2

PROCOS pro ides the irst State o the liberalisation o commercial settlements allowed by the law o modernization o economy (LME). In 2009, crisis and decline in consumption and in a market rench already saturated, a new record olume o commercial sur aces was beaten. There is a trend similar to pre ious years. E en i de elopers begin to slow their production o commercial sur aces, the number o projects authorized by local communities is considerable. Today, it is urgent to rede ine a strategic approach to trade settlements because the question o the territorial balance was ne er raised as acuity.

The LME has accelerated the expansion o commercial sur aces: 4 million new square meters in 2009

Since LME, any commercial project is subject to prior authorisation, once it de elops a sales area than a worn threshold o 300 m to 1.000 m; Howe er, the opening o a less than 1.000 m sur ace is relie ed o authorisation procedure. In 2009, nearly 3 million square meters o commercial sur aces were allowed by the new Commissions departmental o de elopment Commercial (CDAC) in metropolitan rance. Taking also into account the projects included in the range o 300 to 1,000 m (pre iously subject to departmental boards o equipment Commercial - CDEC), or more than one million m additional, more than 4 million square meters o commercial sur aces will ha e been produced this year. Thus, despite the crisis, the production o commercial sur aces continues at a ery steady pace. It reaches this year its highest le el a ter the record years o 2007 (3.5 million square meters) and 2008 (3.1 million authorized m which add extensions sur aces de eloped during the transitional period rom September to No ember 2008, estimated between 500,000 and a million o square meters).

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

The olume o commercial sets projects appears shi ted to economic conditions. The crisis is here and o erproduction was acing a decline in consumption but also to a certain timidity on the part o the signs. These two actors make it essential urgent reaction o local elected o icials, representati es o our cities and guarantors o our territorial equilibrium. According to the Obser atory o the projects o commercial sets o Procos, 593 projects (7.432.000 m) are already planned or the next 5 years, which makes the rance the European countries in which the largest number o projects and m are planned. I the number o projects is the irst decline since the 1990s, it remains at a ery high le el, and does not indicate a re ersal o the situation: this trend will continue. 80 o project (5.900.000 m) sur aces are operations o periphery with 52 o the parks o commercial acti ities (3.780.000 m) and 28 o malls (2.120.000 m). Downtown (890.000 m) shopping centres represent only 12 o the dra t sur aces. Among these 593 projects, 234 ha e already obtained their authorization; they represent a new record or olume o 3.213.000 commercial sur aces m (o which 30 - 986.000 m - open in 2010). 82 o the authorized sur aces are on the periphery (2.635.000 m), 1.480.000 m as parks o acti ities commercial (with 2/3 o creation, 1/3 o extension), 1.155.000 m in malls (with new 2/3 o creation, 1/3 extension).

O erproduction o unwarranted, and anachronistic commercial m

This e olution ollows economic logic: the household consumption ell to 0.9 in 2008 and 0.7 in 2009, while she was o about 2 to 2.5 per year on a erage to 2007; the National Council o commercial Centres (CNCC) iew-3.9 the decline in attendance o the shopping centres on the year 2009. This o erproduction, no monitoring o the application, risk creating a phenomenon o "cannibalization" o businesses, closures, and so commercial brown ield de elopment. inally, it will undermine the balances between cities and peripheral centres, already ery precarious, as the e olution o our society makes necessary dynamic and aried abric o businesses in the city centre: densi ication o habitat town centre, ageing o the pander

or a strategic approach to territorial equilibrium

These two reports show the need or a strategic approach to the territorial balance and settlements commercial, in the continuity o the Grenelle o the en ironment, proposing se eral measures to combat urban sprawl, preser ation o territorial equilibrium, control o mo ements, etc. Commercial urbanism must be addressed speci ically in a ounding act on se eral key principles. The Procos ederation ad ocates, that the commercial part o the SCOT be strengthened and made mandatory. It also supports the application o new architectural, urban and landscape integration requirements, to impro e the quality o the new programmes but with a cost control a oiding the escalation o rents or the new created businesses. inally, it calls or the creation o new tools or land control, mounting and porting operations, to address the issue o the re-quali ication o existing sites, priority o degraded city entries. The Go ernment had committed in the re iew o the LME to ile prior to i n 2008 Bill consolidate commercial urbanism and had loaded the Charié member o a mission in this sense. It brought together all o the actors in the trade, who ha e worked together with proposals or practical and applicable solutions. This re orm must go to its end: it is essential or the cities and trade, including the anarchic de elopment continues under the transitional regime established by the LME.