Caen la mer urban community

Caen la mer, reuniting 29 towns and villages and approximately 220,000 inhabitants, satisfies the aim for management, quality of life improvement and business development through the structuring and the enhancement of its territory.

Through its many missions, Caen la mer is preparing for the future, its main priority being economic development. In order to accomplish its vocation and to satisfy legal requirements, the conurbation has reunited a number of determining areas of competence for its inhabitants' daily lives, including:

Economic development

* Creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, traditional craft, tourist, port and airport activity zones of community interest,
* Economic development activities of community interest

Development of community areas

* Schemes for both territorial and activity sector coherence,
* Creation and development of mixed development zones of community interest,
* Organisation of urban transport

Social balance for housing

* PLH - Local housing initiative
* Community interest housing policy,
* Action and financial aid to encourage community interest housing,
* Reserved areas for the implementation of a community policy for social balance in housing,
* Action, via community interest operations, to encourage housing for the underprivileged,
* Improvement of community interest housing stock.

Town policy

* Contractual schemes for urban development, local development, economic and social insertion of community interest,
* Local community interest schemes for the prevention of delinquency,
* Advice for the prevention of delinquency and local security contracts.

Environmental protection and preservation

* Fight against air pollution,
* Fight against noise pollution,
* Collection, disposal and processing of household and assimilated waste

Activities in the higher education sector

* Involvement in the field of public and private higher education and research for action of community interest.

Telecommunications network

* Creation of telecommunications networks for district use. .