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| Urban Planning prepares a report on these processes, within the Government team's commitment to transparency | The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, is committed to negotiation to avoid judicializing the negotiations on the urban agreements that were reached in previous legislatures and that have been suspended due to the annulment of the General Urban Development Plan.“The annulment of the revision of the General Plan has made the City Council unable to meet the pending compensation agreed with the owners of the land occupied in its day and that a part of the affected owners now demand payment in cash.

Faced with this situation, we have decided, whenever possible, to negotiate payment schedules with those affected to comply with the obligations contracted with them and, above all, to avoid lawsuits that condemn us to pay not only the amount assessed on the day, but also interests and costs ”, explained the mayor in the municipal plenary session.Likewise, Castejón has announced that the services of the Department of Urban Planning are already writing a report on each and every one of the agreements that have not been fulfilled due to the cancellation of the PGOU, and that said report will be put at the service of municipal groups and of the plenary session for the sake of transparency advocated by the Government team.

Said study will collect the payments paid to date, those that are approved in payment schedules and a forecast of those that may arise in the future.The urban planning agreements of the Cartagena City Council with individuals were used in previous legislatures to manage the land that was needed for works such as the Transversal Round, the North Round, the Greenway in Barrio de Peral; or infrastructures such as the collectors built against the flooding of the Ensanche and the Barrio de la Concepción; or to incorporate monuments such as the Roman Amphitheater, among others, into the municipal heritage.This urban practice was used frequently in the first decade of the 21st century by many municipalities to obtain the necessary land for infrastructures of general interest, avoiding expropriation procedures and speeding up the deadlines for the execution of the works.Most of these agreements were made with the commitment to pay the amount of the land occupied with urban uses in future developments, included in the review of the General Urban Planning Plan finally approved in 2012.

The agreements were reached after appraisal and following the procedures provided for in the Law.However, the annulment of the revision of the General Plan has made the City Council unable to meet the pending compensations agreed with the owners of the land occupied in its day and that a part of the affected owners now demand payment in cash.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena