Costa del Sol
Junta says Alhaurín macro urbanisation would be environmentally unviable
By m.p
Aug 6, 2007 - 9:28 AM

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%.