A Thousand Contributions to Alicante's New General Plan

The Alicante City Council has gathered a thousand surveys in the public consultation process of the Structural General Plan (PGE), 'Alicante, a plan with you'. This process also included in-person participation and contributions from over 500 people in the workshops and informative sessions held.

The public consultation will officially close on May 26 with a presentation of results at the Puerta Ferrisa municipal building at 5 PM. Subsequently, these contributions will be incorporated into the draft and initial strategic document of the PGE, which the City Council plans to approve this summer to begin the strategic environmental and territorial evaluation process.

The Urban Planning Councillor, Rocío Gómez, expressed gratitude for "the citizens' involvement in the public consultation of the Structural General Plan, through the survey and workshops" and considered that "their contributions are of great importance, as we are at a crucial moment for Alicante, where together we are building the city of the future." Gómez explained that "all their proposals will be included in the draft and initial strategic document of the PGE and we will take them into account" and noted that, although the public consultation has set deadlines, "the City Council is open to organising new forums for debate and participation on how we want the city we live in to be."

The public consultation of the PGE began on April 7 with the presentation event led by the mayor, Luis Barcala, and over the course of a month, a presentation of the preliminary studies of the PGE and three workshops on Green Infrastructure and Mobility; Growth and Urban Development; and Services and Urban Regeneration were held. More than 500 people participated in all these events.

The PGE is the instrument responsible for organising the essential elements that structure the territory, that is, those whose function encompasses the entire city and exceed the neighbourhood scale. These elements include, for example, primary transport and mobility infrastructures, major facilities and parks, the delimitation of sectors for future developments or for the reform and regeneration of the existing city, as well as strategic guidelines.

Meanwhile, the Detailed Planning Plan (POP) develops and specifies the determinations set by the PGE, to which it is subordinate. This detailed planning plan regulates the detailed use of land and buildings and defines the elements whose function generally focuses on the neighbourhood level, such as specific building ordinances and the facilities and green areas that serve this neighbourhood scale.