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Amiens Métropole
Amiens Métropole
Communauté d'agglomération
	Location in the Somme.
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
No. of communes	39
Established	1999
Seat	Amiens
Government
• President	Alain Gest
Area	348.7 km2 (134.6 sq mi)
Population (2018)	180,905
• Density	519/km2 (1,340/sq mi)
Website	www.amiens.fr

The Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole is a communauté d'agglomération in the Somme département and in the Hauts-de-France région of France. It was created in December 1999.^[1] Its area is 348.7 km². Its population was 180,905 in 2018, of which 133,891 in Amiens proper.^[2]

History

In 1991 a study was started by SIEPA (Syndicat Intercommunal d'Etude et de Amiénois Programming), which was the origin of Greater Amiens, established in 1994 with 18 municipalities.

Pursuant to the Chevènement Act, 2000, it was turned into a communauté d'agglomération, Amiens Métropole, which then encompassed 20 communes with the arrival of Allonville and Bertangles.

Since then, Amiens Métropole has continued to add more communes: 2003, with 21 municipalities, 2004 with 27 municipalities, and in 2007, 33 municipalities. In January 2018, it was expanded with 6 more communes from the Communauté de communes du Territoire Nord Picardie and the Communauté de communes Nièvre et Somme to 39 communes.^[3]

Composition

The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 39 communes:^[1]^[4]

Responsibilities

Action for Economic Development (Support for industrial, commercial or employment, support agricultural and forestry activities)
Action to promote housing for the disadvantaged
Advocacy
Sanitation
Waste Collection and household treatment
Construction and development, maintenance and management of equipment or cultural institutions, socio-cultural, socio-educational, sports
Design, development and maintenance of the roads
Design, development, maintenance and management of business areas (industrial, commercial, service, craft or tourist)
Design, development, maintenance and management of port or airport activities
Crematorium
Contractual urban development, community development and economic and social integration
Local crime prevention
Water (treatment, supply, distribution)^[5]
Research and Programming
Noise control
IT networking (Internet, cable)
Operation scheduled for improving habitat (OPAH)
Urban Transport Organization
Housing policy
Agenda local housing
Protection and enhancement of the environment
Air Quality
Tourism
Waste processing^[1]

Tax and budget

The community is financed by the single business tax (15.27% 2006), which replaces the taxes once payable by the member communes.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c CA Amiens Métropole (N° SIREN : 248000531), BANATIC. Accessed 17 October 2024.
^ Comparateur de territoire, INSEE, accessed 5 April 2022.
^ Arrêté préfectoral 12 December 2017, p. 121
^ INSEE
^ Amiens Métropole distributed 15,125,988 cubic metres of drinking water to 37,542 subscribers in 2005