Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot

The Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot  is a communauté de communes in the Somme département and in the Hauts-de-France région of France. Its population is 28,302 (2018).

Composition
The communauté de communes consists of the following 65 communes:


 * 1) Acheux-en-Amiénois
 * 2) Albert
 * 3) Arquèves
 * 4) Auchonvillers
 * 5) Authie
 * 6) Authuille
 * 7) Aveluy
 * 8) Bayencourt
 * 9) Bazentin
 * 10) Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre
 * 11) Beaumont-Hamel
 * 12) Bécordel-Bécourt
 * 13) Bertrancourt
 * 14) Bouzincourt
 * 15) Bray-sur-Somme
 * 16) Buire-sur-l'Ancre
 * 17) Bus-lès-Artois
 * 18) Cappy
 * 19) Carnoy-Mametz
 * 20) Chuignolles
 * 21) Coigneux
 * 22) Colincamps
 * 23) Contalmaison
 * 24) Courcelette
 * 25) Courcelles-au-Bois
 * 26) Curlu
 * 27) Dernancourt
 * 28) Éclusier-Vaux
 * 29) Englebelmer
 * 30) Étinehem-Méricourt
 * 31) Forceville
 * 32) Fricourt
 * 33) Frise
 * 34) Grandcourt
 * 35) Harponville
 * 36) Hédauville
 * 37) Hérissart
 * 38) Irles
 * 39) Laviéville
 * 40) Léalvillers
 * 41) Louvencourt
 * 42) Mailly-Maillet
 * 43) Maricourt
 * 44) Marieux
 * 45) Méaulte
 * 46) Mesnil-Martinsart
 * 47) Millencourt
 * 48) Miraumont
 * 49) Montauban-de-Picardie
 * 50) Morlancourt
 * 51) La Neuville-lès-Bray
 * 52) Ovillers-la-Boisselle
 * 53) Pozières
 * 54) Puchevillers
 * 55) Pys
 * 56) Raincheval
 * 57) Saint-Léger-lès-Authie
 * 58) Senlis-le-Sec
 * 59) Suzanne
 * 60) Thiepval
 * 61) Thièvres
 * 62) Toutencourt
 * 63) Varennes, Somme
 * 64) Vauchelles-lès-Authie
 * 65) Ville-sur-Ancre

Responsibilities
The communes of the communauté delegate their representatives with the following responsibilities:
 * Establishment of a joint development zone
 * Help for the communes in the development of their town planning documents.
 * Economic and land use planning
 * Studies, programming, land acquisition and creation of the air industry in Haute Picardie and an economic area near Méaulte.
 * Acquisition of land, planning and management of areas of community interest of more than 1 hectare.
 * Studies on water quality.
 * Studies on flood control
 * Collection, treatment and recovery of household waste.
 * Studies and action from residents for the schedule for improving housing.
 * Information from landlords and tenants for local housing
 * Creation or alteration and maintenance of roads in the public domain known as "intercommunal" defined on the basis of criteria including: School routes, business roads and tourist paths.
 * Removal of snow on the roads
 * Financing of the local mission
 * Workshops during the school holidays.
 * Leisure centre with or without accommodation centres for the young
 * Music Schools
 * Library
 * Creation of a community newspaper
 * Transportation
 * Fishing Schools
 * Promoting tourism and hospitality.
 * Maintenance of hiking routes defined by the Department

Budget and Taxation
The Community is funded by:
 * Single business tax (at a rate of 10.29% in 2006), which replaces the taxes previously collected by the communes.
 * A refuse collection tax.

Economic Development

 *  'Platform aero-industrial' to be carried out as a joint project with the Department of the Somme. The project costs of €40 million is to be funded by the European Union (22.5%), the region Picardie (30%), the département (30%), Airbus (11.25%) and the communauté (6.25%). As such, the communauté will pay €468,000 in 2008.
 * The business park at Albert.
 * The draft joint development zone located between Méaulte and Bécordel-Bécourt between Airbus and the airport at Albert.

Wind power development
The Community Council of 12 November 2007 approved a draft covering 19 communes, mainly in the north of the territory, which could accommodate wind turbines, if the Prefect approves the application.