We have just received our copy of the Bulletin and there is a picture showing what now needs either plannig permission or a declaration to the Mairie.
It is totally over the top and I wouldn’t be surprised if we have to declare our planting schemes soon.
Hi Jane
Can you give any more info please
Andy
Not really, it is a picture of a house and garden and all the rules applying to it.
For instance you now have to make a declaration prealable to alter a wall or put in a gate.
To our minds this is like Soviet rule!
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Walls. I remember a recent thread about walls.
To be honest I have got into the way of notifying the planning lady at the mairie as a matter of course whenever we embark on anything. If she doesn’t need to know she tells me, otherwise she helps me to fill in whatever form she wants. She is a pleasant lady and I do not at all mind dropping in for a chat with her. There has never been any hassle.
I suppose I do not mind because regard it more as a courtesy to help commune life run smooth, than an administrative hurdle. It is the mairie’s job to keep tabs on things after all. I guess that the simple action of making a declaration can in itself be a gentle reminder to residents that they are part of a community and if everybody did what they liked one resident’s actions might unintentionlly cause irritation to another resident. Running things past the mairie will hopefully avoid this situation.
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I always talk to the Mairie before making any changes to the structure or appearance of our house/surroundings.
And a déclaration préalable for certain things doesn’t seem too onerous - or too much of a change, to be honest!
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Can’t you snip and paste it?
A picture being worth 1000 words [being a photographer I would say that, wouldn’t I? But it’s true] ‘Snip & Sketch’ in Windows is one of the most useful things a Windows computer can do. Doubtless the same thing is available on ‘the other OS’.
Just in case the IT consultant is busy elsewhere and your device ‘does’ Windows
1] Click the window icon bottom left
Scroll down the list of apps to
A single click and it opens.
Ignore the instruction about ‘Press Windows logo key etc …’ and choose from the three options that appear when you click the arrow next to ‘New’ in the blue box [top left]
I find 3 seconds is long enough to get myself ready to ‘Snip’ - actually, it’s not ‘snipping’ but casting a box around the bit you want to copy and paste. Until you get used to it you may need 10 secs.
After 3 or 10 secs, the screen goes a bit dim and a + appears. Use the + to draw a box around your target area.
The area you have ‘boxed’ goes white and appears on the screen. You can then use the tools - highlight, pencil, touch writing, ball point - as you wish. There’s a rubber to erase what you don’t want.
Third from the top right [if you count the 3 dots] is the familiar copy icon [a page overlapping another page]
Click that to copy your ‘snip’. Go to the doc/page/email/ w.h.y. where you wnt this snip to go and with ctrl+V it’s pasted to your doc. Or rt click and the ‘Paste’.
Once you start you use this tool you will wonder how you ever managed without it.
I’ve just posted ‘how to’ for ‘Snip & Sketch’. It’s soooo usefulI can’t imagine not knowing how to use it. Vamos a ver - Go Jane! 
I will to have ask my IT consultant.
What do you mean by “The Bulletin”?
Could you take a photo with your phone and upload it?
I suspect Jane is talking about an information Bulletin issued by her Commune to keep Residents informed…
Many communes/towns do this sort of thing… it can range from one sheet to an information booklet on what’s been going-on and what’s inline for the future…
Our Commune normally does 2 a year, but due to covid it’s been reduced to 1 grand publication every 12 months…
Haven’t you always had to do this?? A déclaration préalable is really no trouble at all, maybe 5 minutes.
To change or install a gate in your own garden!
Absolutely. Doesn’t every commune do this?
I recall seeing a pamphlet (at our Mairie I think) a while ago, which sounds like what you are describing… (I thought I’d posted it on the forum, but possibly not)
anyway, if I recall correctly, it’s a countrywide campaign… aimed at ensuring folk all across France do “do things properly”.
There are so many variables, depending on how each area is classified, as well as monuments etc etc… how close to this, that and the other… etc etc
Thus, it’s easier to ask folk to check with the Mairie than simply “go-ahead and do it!”
and re the Bulletin… our Commune has been issuing one for the the past 20+ years… but France is vast and each Commune will possibly/probably be doing their own thing, in their own way.
Given what the locals round here install, I’m not surprised! Huge great pillars, moat and portcullis not unusual. 
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They are called chateau Sue, its the std. 
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We have to submit a request to the Mairie and the ABF if we want to paint the windows doors shutters etc. Same as if we want to change them.
Here’s a link to are recently amended PLU/PLUi
http://www.vezelay.fr/site/plui
We had our windows painted a couple of months ago (same colour) by a local firm - hope we don’t get in trouble. 
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surely not…
As long as it’s not that vivid B&Q blue ! (like the Reply button on SF).