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Issue 171:
26/02/10 - 11/03/10 |
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A.N.S.E. (The Nature Association of the South East) and A.D.E.C.A. (Defending Cabo de Palos Association) have asked the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, not to allow a new urbanization to be built next to the Regional Park of Calblanque.
Both associations have complained that the Cartagena council is in the process of approving a new general ordnance plan, which will revive an obsolete general ordnance plan that included a change of use for a large amount of land surrounding Cala Reona, next to Calblanque Regional Park, from protected to buildable land. Both associations have made complaints to all levels of government, local, regional and national, requesting that a change of use for this land not be granted due to the negative effects a new urbanization would have on the environment. Cala Reona is one of the few remaining natural coves on the Mediterranean coastline which has to date escaped the land swallowing cement disease from covering the natural area with new houses. The council in Cartagena is adamant that it is not planning on allowing any building on the land next to the Regional Park of Calblanque, even though in the new general ordnance plan a change of use is clearly shown. According to Pedro Garcia, President of A.N.S.E., "If there is no project planned to build in that area why are they so dead set on issuing a change of use, which would then allow for building to take place, if that is not there intention?" Pedro Garcia has also pointed out that the main owner of the land in question is a company called La Solan de Carrascoy, owned by Francisco Javier Celdran Degano, who happens to be a relative of the President of the P.P. Party in Cartagena and the President of the Regional Assembly, Francisco Celdran. The P.S.O.E. MPs Juan Luis Martinez and Carmen Martinez have made allegations that the change of use from non-buildable to buildable land could directly benefit the P.P. Party leader's family. A spokesperson for the P.P. Party, Joaquin Segado, commented that this was not true and that the town council, when making general ordnance plans, do that without being aware to whom the land actually belongs.
Both A.N.S.E. and A.D.E.C.A. have vowed to take this issue as far as needs be to ensure that the old general ordnance plan from the 80s, which was shelved, is not brought back, thus preventing some 60 hectares of land being granted a change of use, which would at some point in the future allow for an urbanization of up to 1,000 homes to be built. A.N.S.E. has also asked for the Coastal Administration to extend the limits of the coastal protection from 100 metres to 200 metres. The residents in Cabo de Palos are amazed that the council is considering issuing a change of use of land so close to the natural protected park of Calblanque. Pedro Garcia, President of A.N.S.E., added, "Any new building in that area, especially an urbanization with up to 1,000 homes, would negatively impact on the environment. As at the moment the changes for the new general ordnance plan are still in the initial provisional stages of being passed, it must be stopped, as this change of use would inevitably lead to an urbanization being built at some point."
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