Clearing bush is your home’s safety belt against fire! Clearing bush is your home’s safety belt against fire! Good clearing should reduce the mass of plants on land by creating vertical and horizontal discontinuities in the vegetation between:
The creation of these discontinuities reduces the risk of fire, slows down the spread of fire and its intensity.
In the Var, the prefectural decree of March 30, 2015 provides permanent regulations for compulsory clearing and maintenance in a cleared state.
In the Var, you must clear bush if you own buildings, plots located in zone U, or equipment located less than 200 meters from woods, forests, moors, scrubland and scrubland.
Clearing must be ensured permanently in the Var. Ideally, tree and shrub felling and pruning should be carried out between November and March. Cutting weeds can be done all year round with a cut just before summer when the grass is still green. From June 21 to September 20, the use of pyrogenic devices should be avoided due to the risk of fire. If necessary, the Var prefectural decree of June 19, 2018 regulates the provision and use of certain devices, machines and materials.
O.L.D. translates to Legal Clearance Obligation.
In a non-urban zone, when the presence of a construction on a property results in a clearing obligation that extends beyond this property, the owner of the construction must carry out the clearing on the neighboring land.
The legislator has made clearing 50 m around a home the responsibility of its owner, and not the owner of the land, because:
The Forest Code, by prohibiting the owner of neighboring land from opposing the clearing of bush (articles L.131-12 and R.131-14), relaxes property rights so that building owners can take action. safety by clearing bush from their neighbors.
The classic clearing rules only apply if the plots no longer have the appearance of a maintained and cultivated agricultural plot, but of a ” wasteland ” with spontaneous vegetation (often materialized by the presence of shrubs starting to push).
If the land is of an agricultural nature (fruit tree orchards, olive grove, meadow, lawn, etc.), it is not part of the areas to be cleared.
Access roads must be cleared to a minimum depth of 2 meters on either side of the road right-of-way. In addition, a traffic clearance of 4 meters must be created by removing all vegetation over a height of 4 meters and a width of 2 meters on either side of the central axis of the road.
Remember that this 4X4 m template will allow emergency vehicles to access your property in the event of a fire!….
On the contrary, good bush clearing will enhance your environment. Regulatory requirements provide for maintaining tree branches more than 3 meters from each other with the possibility of maintaining clumps of trees 15 meters in diameter in the peripheral zone located between 20 and 50 meters from buildings. By favoring the least combustible species in the immediate vicinity of buildings, it is often possible to prune conifers beyond the regulatory 2m50 in order to open up the landscape and reduce the risk of propagation to the crowns. There are many solutions allowing you to fully reconcile safety and beauty….
In natural areas, bush and dead trees are part of the ecosystem, and reducing the mass of fuel everywhere in the forest would not make sense.
The law only requires clearing in the presence of homes, buildings, roads, etc. as long as they are located in or near the forest.
Under article L.131-13 of the Forest Code, in the event of overlapping obligations to clear bush on the same plot, implementation of the obligation falls to the owner of the plot as long as he is there. himself submitted.
In cases where all or part of a plot subject to a clearing obligation belongs to an owner not bound by said obligation, each of the persons subject to these obligations clears the parts closest to the boundaries of the plots housing the construction, the site, the equipment or installation of any kind which gives rise to the obligation for which it is responsible.
In an overlay zone, each owner can carry out the work. The sharing of responsibility only exists to define who will be obliged to clear the bush if nothing is done. In an overlapping zone, each owner has an interest in clearing bushes, because this zone protects both homes. The ideal is therefore to clear bush on time or at shared costs.
Where the OLD applies, it is necessary to clear bush to a depth of 50 meters around homes, buildings, or other equipment of any kind, even if the area to be cleared is located on the neighbor’s property.
This depth can be increased to 100 meters by the mayor or the prefect (particularly in the case of a forest fire risk prevention plan).
Yes, this is a special case.
Any plot located both in zone U and less than 200 meters from a forest (or heath, scrubland) must be cleared in its entirety by its owner, even if it is not currently built on.
It is the owner of the property who must clear the bush. The tenant can clear bush if the owner stipulates it in his rental contract. But according to the law, only the owner is responsible, under article L.134-8 of the Forest Code. One exception: emphyteutic (long-term) leases.
Exceptionally, it is permitted to conserve certain protected, heritage, agricultural or ornamental species if they are regularly maintained and development is contained. If certain particularly combustible species such as cypresses should be absolutely avoided, other species can be preserved (mulberry, plane trees, lime trees, citrus fruits, etc.)
All houses, swimming pools, parking areas including those adjoining homes, gas tanks, greenhouses, workshops, sheds, sheds large enough to be the subject of human occupation, sports fields, land designed for the practice of motorized sports, shooting ranges, tarmacs, vehicle-caravan-boat depots, landfills, light leisure homes, campsites and residential parks, wind turbines, photo-voltaic farms, electrical transformers, antennas and radars, reception areas for people from travel, golf courses, caravans present for more than 3 months or summer, cemeteries, etc.
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