[2] The working group was founded on June 18, 1963[3] and, as a centrally government-controlled initiative, represents the intermediate step from private tourism infrastructure planning to the "Schéma de cohérence territoriale" (SCoT), which has been established in France since the 1980s.
[3] Since the 2000s, attempts have been made to convert around 195,000 little-used second homes into permanent dwellings, although there are climatic problems concerning (in France) all the houses that will be below sea level.
The local authorities that we wish to involve politically in this work, i.e. essentially the départements and the communes concerned, will be responsible for rehabilitating the land and the stations that the State will develop.
To carry out this vast undertaking, the administration itself has had to adapt, as it is too compartmentalized to successfully complete a work requiring synthesis from conception and coordination to execution at all times.
An interministerial mission was set up under the regional planning delegation, comprising the five ministries primarily concerned, the tourism commissioner, the Prefect of the Montpellier region and his general secretary, and Mr Pierre Raynaud [the future Conservatoire du littoral president], and the government delegation, to draw up the plan and have it implemented by all the Parisian and provincial administrations working on behalf of their commune.