Large-scale Development For Spanish Village
November 30th, 2007
Under new town PGOU, new properties in Algorfa would turn a village with around 3,000 inhabitants into a large town with 60,000.
Every municipality in Spain has a PGOU; a plan for development in the area that is approved by the regional government. The PGOU sets out which land can or cannot be built on, which land has been set aside for building particular amenities and so on. The plan for Algorfa, currently being examined by the Valencia regional government, will free up six million square metres of land that’s currently unavailable for building being freed up for development, including social housing. This is actually a reduction in the amount of building land as the previous PGOU was rejected by the regional government.
Algorfa is in the part of Alicante province that’s most popular with expat property buyers and its population is currently only 45% native Spanish, and there are some fears that building new homes on the scale proposed – land has even been set aside for two new golf courses, although there are no firms in place to build them at present – will change Algorfa’s character, although the town’s mayor has stated that he believes many Spanish people would like to live in the municipality.
There’s a hint of green to the proposed PGOU as cycle paths and footpaths between the various zones are included.
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