UDAP: Departmental Units of Architecture and Heritage of the Pays de la Loire
The departmental units of architecture and heritage (UDAP) are decentralized services of the Ministry of Culture. At the departmental level, they constitute the territorial units of the DRAC, and were previously referred to as the territorial services of architecture and heritage (STAP). Within the DRAC, the UDAP work to promote a qualitative and sustainable development of the territory, where landscape, urban planning and architecture maintain a reasoned dialogue between project dynamics and consideration of heritage.
Missions
The UDAP, under the authority of a head of department, architect of the buildings of France (ABF) carry out 4 main missions:
- Promote the architectural and landscape quality of buildings, particularly by ensuring the integration of sustainable development issues;
- To contribute to the quality of urban and rural development projects and to city policy, to encourage architectural creation;
- Advise clients in the development and implementation of their architectural projects. Participate in the development of planning documents
- Participate in the implementation of the regulations relating to the monumental heritage: conserve and preserve the historical monuments;
- Evaluate maintenance, restoration, rehabilitation and upgrading projects and participate in the allocation of public aid;
- Contribute to the scientific and technical control of the works and to the health watch on the historical monuments
- The architect of the buildings of France is curator of the monuments of the State and all those assigned to the Ministry of Culture (cathedrals....).
- Control maintenance work on classified monuments belonging to the State
- Control and ensure the preservation of protected areas, contribute to their development by participating in the appraisal of development projects or works located on the edge of a historic monument, protected site, protected area, Architectural, Urban and Landscape Heritage Protection Area (ZPPAUP) or Architectural and Heritage Development Areas (AVAP);
- Propose, animate and coordinate studies relating to safeguarded areas, ZPPAUP or AVAP and the surroundings of historical monuments (modified protection perimeters).
- Contribute, in collaboration with other decentralized departments of the State, to the application of environmental regulations (registered and classified sites, outdoor advertising and signs);
- Integrate urban planning and renewal into a sustainable quality objective of natural and urban spaces.
Learn more about UDAP
Contact:
DRAC des Pays de la Loire
1 Stanislas Baudry
44000 Nantes
Tel. 02 40 14 28 39
Hotline: only on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 12pm
Email: udap44[to]culture.gouv.fr
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Administrative City - Building M
15 bis, rue Dupetit-Thouars
49100 Angers
Email: sdap.maine-et-loire[à]culture.gouv.fr
Tel. 02.41.86.62.20
Hotline: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am to 12pm and from 2pm to 4pm - Wednesday from 11am to 12pm.
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Prefecture - North Pavilion
16 Place Jean Moulin
53000 LAVAL
Tel. 02.53.54.54.45
Email: udap53[à]culture.gouv.fr
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19 Paixhans Boulevard
72042 Le Mans cedex 09
Tel: 02 72 16 42 50
Email: udap72[to]culture.gouv.fr
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Merlet Prefectural Building
31 Delille Street
CS 70 759
85018 La Roche sur Yon
Tel: 02 53 89 73 00
Fax: 02 51 37 37 18
Email: udap85[à]culture.gouv.fr
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UDAP aids and procedures
Work in protected areas
Protected areas are urban or landscape complexes remarkable for their heritage interest in the cultural sense of the term, notably in terms of history, architecture, urban planning, landscape, archaeology. They cover about 6% of our territory and include built and landscaped elements of different nature and times.
