Taffin garden city, Vieux-Condé

The Mining Basin can now be more demanding in its needs and insist on higher architectural and environmental standards. The "pilot villages" programme, which concerns the requalification of the miners' estates, enables improvements which make houses more comfortable, lighter, better insulated, with restored façades and better equipped for current and future lifestyles, in an environment which has green spaces and meeting places. This exemplary modernisation would not have been possible without the World Heritage inscription adventure.