Bosc de Diana, Vessanes and Torrecremada Park: the green ring proposed by the General Plan for Dénia
The work of drafting the General Structural Plan of Dénia reaches its final stretch. The town planning department, led by Maria Josep Ripoll, has already sent the opposition groups the necessary documentation in preparation for the meeting that will be held on Wednesday with the plan's cabinet.
Many are the proposals that this important and awaited document includes, but one of them stands out among the others: the bet for a big green ring that surrounds the city through three large parks that also comply with the standard that stipulates that there must be 5 square meters of green area per inhabitant.
This great ring, the Via Parque, which until now was the North Round, contemplates the union of the city through three green zones: the Bosc of Diana, the new Park Vessanes, and Torrecremada. The new park would be located between the future intermodal station and the park of Torrecremada, and would serve to regulate the avenues.
Stipulated deadlines
Thus, before the end of the month, the relevant information commissions and an extraordinary plenary session will be convened to approve the document's exposure to the public. From that moment, and during 45 days, the citizens who wish it can consult all the information in the ground floor of the City council or in the page Web of the department, Territoridenia.es.
At the end of the period of exposure to the public, approximately in December, will proceed to study the allegations presented and the adequacy, where appropriate the necessary sectoral reports. Ripoll explained that it is quite probable that a second exposure to the public, which in this case would be 20 days, should be carried out, before starting the formalities for final approval of the plan from the Conselleria.
In this way, the government team, made up of PSPV and Compromís, fulfills what was promised at the beginning of the legislature and will present the plan before the end of 2017, although there is no estimate to know when it could be definitively approved.
This is how the citizens of Denia want
During the fall of 2016, the City of Denia held several participatory workshops in order to know the opinion of the citizens. After these meetings, the following objectives have been established to be achieved through the General Structural Plan of Denia:
- A model of a Mediterranean city, quiet, with a lifestyle linked to its territory, landscape and culture, the foundation of its attraction for tourists and visitors.
- A model of city respectful of its environment and landscape, which protects its spaces of high environmental value but also traditional agricultural landscapes
- An urban model of rational land use, which prioritizes ending the existing city, completing vacant urban fabrics, promoting urban regeneration and limiting new urban development to closing the urban center
- A model of a friendly and inclusive city, that favors the pedestrian movements and with urban spaces of quality
- A model of a dynamic and complex city, capital of the region, that allows the territorial development and overcome the present deficiencies: endowing the city and the port with a new access; favoring the intermodality between the train, tram and bus; and expanding the land for tertiary and industrial activities.
- For La Xara, a model that promotes its socio-economic development as an indigenous attraction
- For Jesús Pobre, maintain its rural character and activities related to its environment and landscape
The three axes on which the Plan Cabinet will work
In order to achieve the objectives described, the Dénia General Plan Office will work on three fundamental axes: the green infrastructure; the sustainable urban development and the infrastructure and equipment.
La green infrastructure defines a basic territorial structure composed of those spaces of environmental value, landscape, agricultural, cultural, social, etc., through several points:
- Protection of elements of high environmental value, such as the Montgó Natural Park, protected by sectoral regulations and floodable areas
- It proposes the protection of agricultural land of the Dénia Plan (protected non-urban land) for the promotion of agricultural activity and the protection of a landscape of cultural and scenic value
- Land area NOT developable: 4.766'99 hectares.
- Protected non-developable land area: 3.608'16 hectares, which represents 76% of the total Undeveloped Land
El sustainable urban development prioritizes the rational use of the soil in front of new developments dispersed in the rural soil.
- Promotes the occupation of the vacant spaces of the existing urban consolidation
- It includes areas of new urban development adjacent to the urban centers of Denia, La Xara and Jesús Pobre. This area is limited to 83 hectares of new residential development by the Territorial Strategy of the Region of Valencia
- New total residential urban development of 81'70 hectares.
Dénia: 64'46 hectares (2.521 homes) of which:
43'90 hectares for the Playa-Torrecremada sector
20'56 hectares for the Alqueries sectorPrevious developments: 9'24 hectares (150 homes)
La Xara: 5'39 hectares (138 homes)
Jesús Pobre: 2'61 hectares (66 homes) - Estimation of population for the next 20 years: 55.000 inhabitants
- New development for total activities: 26'08 hectares, of which:
Expansion of the Dénia Industrial Estate: 20'79 hectares
New tertiary zone in the Xara: 5'29 hectares
As regards the equipment and infrastructure, the plan contemplates new infrastructures that have as objective to solve the current deficiencies:
- New connection to the port through the "Vía Parque" (formerly Ronda Norte)
- Intermodal station north of IES Chabàs
- Green areas: Vessanes Park, between Chabàs and Torrecremada (8.93 hectares), with the function of lamination of the avenues, also fulfilling with the standard of 5 square meters per inhabitant of green zone
- Planned land for new schools: new school Raquel Payà, extension of Maria Ibars, new school in La Xara and provision of a center in Nova Dénia