In the morning the Councillor for Employment and Urban Development Salvador Gomez and architect editor perip Joaquín Pozo explained at a press conference the details of the work of updating the special urban plan caravaqueño old town which was approved in the municipal plenary session on Tuesday.
The plan includes the analysis of over 1800 properties in the historic setting of Caravaca, cataloging items to keep, those that must be corrected and guidelines to encourage housing rehabilitation.
It also analyzes social, demographic, historical and environmental factors to establish the necessary public services to prevent the depopulation of some neighborhoods that currently host to more than four thousand inhabitants, 20% of the population of the village caravaqueño.
The council has explained that "the best guarantee of preserving the historical district is that families find it attractive to live in, with the amenities commensurate with the times and pride supposed to live in a urban area held for more than five centuries . To this we must establish conservation guidelines and logical and coherent rehabilitation projects and expedite licensing, further in the historic environment have significant tax rebates. "
From now on a participatory process and suggestions include holding briefings sector to create the necessary debate that allows caravaqueños know the document and contribute their ideas for improvement will be established.
This will be posted on the municipal website www.caravaca.org extensive documentation, plans and records of the Plan.
Salvador Gomez concluded by saying that "at the present time is an opportunity to Caravaca have an instrument like perip since the Spanish strategy of new housing plan looks to rehabilitation as the main engine of job recovery in construction and precisely that end will target most grants and subsidies. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz