Junta says Alhaurín macro urbanisation would be environmentally unviable

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Junta says Alhaurín macro urbanisation would be environmentally unviable
By m.p - Aug 6, 2007 - 9:28 AM
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A new urbanisation of 1,500 new homes is included in the local development plan for Alhaurín el Grande
The newspaper ‘Málaga Hoy’ reports this morning on a new macro-urbanisation planned for the Barranco Blanco area of Alhaurín el Grande: it’s included in the town’s local development plan – the PGOU – and envisages 1,500 new homes on 1.5 million square metres of land.

The paper says the Junta de Andalucía has turned it down as ‘environmentally unviable.’

The site is 5 kms outside the town, in an area declared by the European Union a place of community interest. The Junta also says the proposed plans for water supply would deplete the Río Alaminos watercourse, and are therefore unviable.

There are also concerns about population growth: the Junta estimates the new urbanisation would bring 6,020 new inhabitants, increasing the current population by 28%.

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Charles Svoboda
06 Aug 2007, 12:38

Interesting that the Junta is finally getting on top of these macro urbanizations. I expect it has a lot to do with the fact that the national water authorities and the Minister of the Environment are putting pressure from that end. That in turn reflects the unwelcome attention, from the developers' perspective, of the European Parliament and Courts, plus activities by such organizations as Greenpeace. It will be interesting to see if plans such as those in Molina de Segura which would draw down the water tables further or require huge and probably uneconomic investment in desalinizaion plants will ever materialize. No doubt such schemes would be in breach of EU and national norms.

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