El Puerto de Santa María – New Urban Plan

El Puerto's Town Planning councillor, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, says that the new Urban Plan will be presented to the council for approval at the end of next month or in early September. The draft project is currently on public display at the offices of the Apemsa water company, and will remain there until the 5th of August. Once any suggested changes have been considered and the Plan has been approved by the council, the next step will be to send it on to the Junta de Andalucía.

El Puerto's Urban Plan includes 25,528 new homes, the legalisation of more than 4,000 properties, 20 million square metres of land for development, and four million square metres of protected land. At the moment there are 46,000 homes in the town, and the present population is 83,605. The number of inhabitants is expected to rise to 100,880 by the year 2018.