Locksmith Le Plessis-Robinson, from the Cœur de Ville to the garden city

Built from 1991 to 2005 around the old village and the château that became the town hall, the Cœur de Ville lays out a Grand’Place and a Grande Rue lined with classically inspired buildings, opposite the parc Henri-Sellier. Behind the market, a Palladian-inspired cultural centre opened in 2016. Despite their old-looking façades, these buildings date from the 1990s and 2000s: your door is as old as the building, unless it has already been replaced.

Launched in 1924 by the Office HBM de la Seine, the garden city began with the lower estate, the cité basse: 217 homes in small houses and low-rise buildings, with flat roofs, oval windows and glass-roofed artists’ studios around place Maurice-Payret-Dortail. Another part of the estate, whose demolition was decided at the end of the 1980s, was rebuilt in a traditional style, with pitched roofs and dormer windows. Two eras, two types of door: we adapt the lock and the reinforcement to each.

To the east of the town, la Pépinière, nicknamed “la Pep’s”, sits between avenue de la Résistance, rue Pasteur, rue Boris-Vildé and avenue Raymond-Croland. Ten salmon-coloured buildings of three to five storeys stand alongside houses and a private residence; rue Arthur-Ranc separates it from the Marie-Lannelongue surgical centre. For the front door of a flat, reinforcing the existing door costs less than a new security door.

The neighbourhood takes its name from the guinguettes, the open-air taverns that opened from 1848 onwards, the most famous of which, Au Vrai Arbre and Le Grand Arbre, served their customers perched up in the trees. What remains of them is the pavillon Lafontaine, on rue La Fontaine. On rue de Malabry stands the neo-Gothic tour de Robinson, and the ruins of the château de la Solitude lie hidden in the woods of the same name. House or flat, we fit a multipoint lock or reinforce the front door.