The Communauté de communes du Sud-Ouest Amiénois is a former communauté de communes in the Somme département and in the Picardie région of France. It was created in June 2004.CC du Sud Ouest Amiénois (N° SIREN : 248000762), BANATIC. Accessed 30 March 2022. It was merged into the new Communauté de communes Somme Sud-Ouest in January 2017.Arrêté préfectoral 22 December 2016

History The communauté de communes succeeded the Syndicat mixte Pays Somme sud ouest (SMPSSO), the dissolution taking effect on 1 January 2008. The ‘’syndicat mixte’’, created in 1981, covered 6 of the neighbouring cantons. The new body was created by order of the prefect on 30 June 2004. It included 63 communes in the cantons of Hornoy-le-Bourg, Poix-de-Picardie and part of the Canton de Molliens-Dreuil.Source : Préfecture de la Somme

Composition This Communauté de communes comprised 63 communes:

Airaines Arguel, Somme Aumont, Somme Avelesges Beaucamps-le-Jeune Beaucamps-le-Vieux Belloy-Saint-Léonard Bergicourt Bettembos Blangy-sous-Poix Bougainville, Somme Briquemesnil-Floxicourt Brocourt Bussy-lès-Poix Camps-en-Amiénois Caulières Courcelles-sous-Moyencourt Croixrault Dromesnil Éplessier Équennes-Éramecourt Famechon, Somme Fluy Fourcigny Fresnoy-au-Val Fricamps Gauville Guizancourt Hescamps Hornoy-le-Bourg Lachapelle, Somme Lafresguimont-Saint-Martin Laleu, Somme Lamaronde Le Quesne Lignières-Châtelain Liomer Marlers Meigneux, Somme Méréaucourt Méricourt-en-Vimeu Métigny Molliens-Dreuil Montagne-Fayel Morvillers-Saint-Saturnin Moyencourt-lès-Poix Neuville-Coppegueule Offignies Oissy Poix-de-Picardie Quesnoy-sur-Airaines Quevauvillers Riencourt Saint-Aubin-Montenoy Sainte-Segrée Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle Saulchoy-sous-Poix Tailly, Somme Thieulloy-l'Abbaye Thieulloy-la-Ville Villers-Campsart Vraignes-lès-Hornoy Warlus, Somme

Other groupings The Community Council, on 14 June 2007, adopted the principle of membership of the "Syndicat mixte du Pays du Grand Amiénois".Source : PV du Conseil municipal de Poix du 19 octobre 2007

Projects and goals The Community plans to carry out or support actions: In terms of economic development, for example, around the future motorway interchange on the A29 at Croixrault. In areas of direct interest to the lives of the people: housing (plan of action for the implementation of multi-family housing), culture (financing actions promoting libraries) and multimedia (development in the intercommunal territory).

See also Communes of the Somme department

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