The city of Les Sables d’Olonne will now be responsible for supervising musical events. A new decree from the prefect of Vendée authorizes the mayor to authorize exemptions for traders who request it. This new rule came into effect on Friday, July 1. A way to respond to complaints from some bar neighbors and the collective of traders Sab’ouge recently created. “If the tranquility of local residents must be preserved, our bars, restaurants, shops must reasonably create entertainment” judge the town hall. The old rule was inapplicable and therefore inapplicable judges the mayor of Les Sables d’Olonne Yannick Moreau who salutes “the pragmatic spirit“of the new prefect of Vendée.
– Yves-Rene Tapon
The tolerance threshold of the inhabitants is much lower. Yannick Moreau
The Covid crisis and the silence imposed in festive places has had an effect on the tolerance threshold of local residents, noted the mayor of Les Sables d’Olonne Yannick Moreau: “After a year and a half of musical abstinence, we noticed by the complaints received that the tolerance threshold of the inhabitants was much lower, and therefore there is a need to find new balances“. This new balance authorized by the prefect of Vendée by decree is simple: merchants wishing to organize an event must make the request, at least 14 days before. Schedules and noise will be controlled by the municipal police. “Clearly it’s a good compromise. – reacts Frank Giraudeauowner of the bar Friends as pigs at La chaume and member of the Sab’ouge- because we didn’t know if the police were going to intervene, so after the Covid we were also living with this stress. Alexandre Vanremtergeem, boss of the Patagos on the marina adds: “Today having a framework, a method, to set up animations will allow us to do them in a more programmed and perhaps more recurring way”.
Clearly this is a good compromise. The manager of Friends as Pigs