Valois-Senlis-Chantilly

91 communes 122,272 inhabitants

The Valois-Senlis-Chantilly district is situated in the south-east of the Oise department. On the Picardy fringe area of the Ile de France region, it forms part of the Greater Paris metropolitan area.
It is made up of a semi-urban forested and residential area in the west and an agricultural-oriented rural area in the east.

The Valois-Senlis/Chantilly district can be defined as follows :

• A region whose name is associated with royal dynasties (the Valois dynasty around Crépy-en-Valois, the Capetians in Senlis, the Princes of Condé in Chantilly), with an outstanding architectural and cultural heritage bearing testimony to this rich past.
• A natural heritage and a rich and diverse landscape : the forested areas in the west (Forests of Halatte, Chantilly and Ermenonville), the vast agricultural plateaus in Valois to the East with its picturesque valleys cut in to the landscape (Automne, Nonette, Ourcq, Gergogne etc).
• Adequately served by an extensive transport network (A1 motorway, RN16, RN17, RN2, RN330 national roads, SNCF lines between Paris-Laon and Paris-Creil and a TGV line between Paris-Lille) and situated in close proximity to Paris and the Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle international airport, the region is characterised by commuting and labour mobility towards the Paris basin and has a rate of employment that is lower than the national average.
• The increased mobility of its population, however, could have an environmental impact on the region : overcrowding on the road networks, a high level of urbanisation, an impairment of the landscape and damage to the natural environments, as well as tightness in the housing market, particularly in the rental sector.

The main sustainable development areas of priority established by the territorial players in response to these issues focus on :

• Controlling the urban traffic pressure both in qualitative and quantitative terms and maintaining a quality town-countryside environment.
• The preservation and utilisation of its heritage and the development of a quality tourism offer.
• Coordinated economic and social development and the creation of extensive infrastructural facilities.
• Assisting in the organisation/modernisation of the public services offered to the population - Environment and transport policies.

The Regional nature park of Oise-Pays de France, formed in 2004 provides a unified solution to the territorial development issues. The park comprises 59 communes over 60,000 hectares, with 15 communes in the Val d’Oise in the Ile-de-France region and 44 communes in the Valois-Senlis-Chantilly district.