Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Not building yet

Last night, at the plenary session of the Bigastro town council, Aurelio Murcia presented a communication from the main directorate of Urbanismo de la Conselleria de Territorio which urged the local Administration to suspend the activities in the Special Plan for the Pedrera.

This plan is for the construction of an aparthotel, a golf practice course , and a " solar orchard " on 400,000 square metres of land.

The main argument for "knocking back" the development is that the City council has developed a Special Plan for the Pedrera, within the local General Plan of 2000, without the supervision and the authorization of the autonomic Administration.

The City council auctioned 35,000 square meters of non-urbanizable land from the Pedrera for 2.2 million euros to build an aparthotel but concealed within this was a "plan parcial" for more than two hundred villas which are currently advertised for sale on the Internet.

The City council received 250,000 euros as payment for the concession of the license for that complex. The same company, which paid 600,000 euros for the 40,000 square metres of land to build golf practice courses, has now suspended that plan.

Another one of the activities, which has not been supervised by the Generalitat, is the building of a controversial solar orchard by Eurener who apparently have family ties with the current Mayor, Joaquin Moya.

The Conselleria de Medio ambiente has put a hold on the start of work at the Pedrera.

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