There are many urban problems to be solved in Alicante. In fact, great historical demands remain on the table. there Central Park, Vía Parque, or General Plan (PGOU), in force since 1987 as the maximum symbol of a city’s urban planning.
Four years ago, during the campaign, the parties, Although the Structural Plan, including PP and Ciudadanos, sounds even more ambitious. The truth is that progress has been made, but very little. The City Council initially approved the Guards Catalogue, which is still awaiting final approval from the Generalitat. Urbanism with Adrián Santos Pérez (Cs) in the foreground, it encouraged the preparation of previous sectoral reports for revision of the text. And some more. Already admitted a year ago mayor Luis Barcala, that the new PGOU cannot wait until 2027, that is, the end of the next mandate. “We’ve talked about it so much that the talk of the General Plan loses its credibility,” said the popular councilor in Valencia.
Also, considering the next four years, the bipartisan reactivated its initial approval in the final phase of this mandate. The OI/2 Special Plan, which is the key document for Construction of the future Central Park and Intermodal Station. Next Wednesday, at an extraordinary plenary session, the government plans to ratify the text, which will return to the same point reached in 2015. In other words, maybe eight years lost in the big city project.
At this technical stage, nothing is visible to citizens who want to make changes to the city model, there are other areas, such as the south entrance. Expanding Parque del Mar and diverting traffic around the port. Negotiations with Port and Adif with several groups did not help to accelerate OI/3’s specific plan. Progress has been made on the rest of the coastline.
Yes, there were developments in that environment of Benalúa Sur that can be seen with the naked eye. During this tenure, they began to build around half a thousand houses. and above all it has it ensured the survival of the flour mills, one of the few traces of the past still standing in Alicante. Houses under construction Vistahermosa Norte, where around 1,500 people are estimated. Both areas have concentrated the main urban developments in this mandate. in addition to the final blows of PAU 1 and 5, where there is almost no plot. In the same area, in Playa de San Juan, Urbanism began to unblock some of the land awaiting development, where half a thousand houses could be built. City plan on the way to approval Lomas de Garbinet, after decades of blockade.
Suspended licenses are the area around the arena where they want to run “full management of OI/4”.
No progress and a sentence, in Sangueta. Three years ago, a judge agreed with some residents who had requested that the City Council encourage urban planning in the neighborhood for some time. The court decided that the bipartisans had six months to start processing the special plan. For now, the only progress has been a collaboration with the University of Alicante to review design proposals.
Waiting for the facts Tabarca residents, because the contract for the preparation of the special plan of the island has just been signed. They are in the same situation in the Alicante orchard, as the conservation plan of the towers remains unclear.
without a date for actual execution Completion of Via Parque between PAU 2 and Florida, because this authority only served to open a -key-section of a few tens of meters. and expropriating – finalizing – the land. Neighbors need patience to see machinery nearby.