Marbella’s development plan will be on public display until October 15th
Marbella Town Hall has heard the protests of many of the 40 social, professional and political groups who attended last week’s meeting about the new town development plan and called for the document to be left on public display for another month. The municipal planning department, run by councillor Alba Echeverría, has agreed to extend the public consultation period for an extra two weeks, in order to make sure that as many individuals and associations as want to can participate in the process, and avoid too many delays in the approval of the PGOU. It is hoped that the plan will be finally approved in 2008.
The meeting association of traders and professionals in the old town of Marbella justified their calls for an extension on the grounds that the “document is very thick”, meanwhile the environmentalists Ecologistas En Acción backed the calls for an extension and asked for engineers, environment specialists and architects to be present at the meetings with the associations’ representatives. The residents’ federations of Marbella and San Pedro Alcántara-Nueva Andalucía seconded this request.
The representatives of the associations form part of the Mesa de Participación del Plan General, formed with the aim of encouraging citizen participation in the development plan. Some groups expressed their doubts about the point of the group as it was only formed when the period for making objections was nearing its end. Councillor Echeverría explained that the group would continue to meet with the Town Hall even after the plan has been approved.
According to the municipal planning department so far around 50 official objections to the new development plan have been registered. The new PGOU, on display in the Palacio de Congresos, is consulted by around a hundred people a day. The majority of enquiries refer to the zoning of land as well as the compensation that has been agreed for the legalisation of some irregular properties.
Now the new development will remain on display now until October 15th.
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