This is a document which will be a modern, practical and functional tool to contribute to the revitalization of this urban area and serve to bring it to reality.
Lorca Mayor Francisco Jodar reported this morning that the city of our city has been awarded definitively reviewing the Special Plan for the Protection and Rehabilitation of the Historic Integral Lorca (PEPRI).
It is a document that has the aim to update the information throughout this urban area with the aim of harmonizing the development and recovery of their property, streets and squares with respect to architectural and monumental aesthetic framework that is.
We are talking about providing a modern, useful and practical tool to revitalize our historic, Overview PEPRI is the opportunity that the City Council will take to accelerate the process of recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction in the aforementioned context.
Overview PEPRI, which was adopted almost 15 years now, has required the completion of 5 meetings of the relevant contracting table.
The process concurrency companies have chosen Valencia, Murcia and Navarra, being awarded for good in the amount of 43,000 euros.
The mayor explained that because of the major changes has been the historical center of Lorca after the earthquake and the multitude of plots that have been exempted after the demolition is necessary to adapt the Urban Policy and Regulatory Ordinances PEPRI the situation current with the main objective to promote the recovery of property and the implementation of different types of facilities that help to stimulate the activity of the historical district.
Francisco Jodar found good results for Cultural Heritage is throwing the coordinated intervention of the various authorities in the "Master Plan for the Recovery of Cultural Heritage Lorca".
Thanks to it we have a document that would organize and coordinate efforts to quantify and optimize investment management performance recovery Heritage.
It also has the purpose of expanding the scope of the plan, beyond the 75 main buildings, and establish guidelines for intervention with an overview of the city.
The incorporation of shares listed buildings with security level Grade 3, and in the public space and the urban scene and the expansion of ancillary comprehensive programs involves approaching integral concepts of historic, although they were treated in the first paper of the Plan, the actions planned in this first phase were consciously limited and aimed at solving specific problems that required immediate intervention.
PEPRI: preliminary analysis and review.
The preliminary analysis pursued Pepri form as to show a document articulating the parameters that can further influence the distortions that have been taking place in the historic center;
cataloging criteria, regulations for demolition, restructuring, heights and maximum volume permitted works, etc.
and to make proposals that support for a specific amendment.
Consequently diagnosis and facilitate proposal PEPRI make a series of changes in the shortest time possible to have a temporary tool should be done in the meantime starts writing the Review and Extension PEPRI.
The two principal purposes of drafting the preliminary analysis of PEPRI are: firstly to propose to the City Council a balanced position that allows the city to function and to establish a moratorium on the review of the legislation, and secondly, to establish rules to respect the recipients of aid in the rehabilitation of eligibility for such benefits and to control the reconstruction and rehabilitation programs.
Because of the great transformations which have taken the Historic Center after the earthquake and the multitude of plots that have emerged in the town after the demolitions, it is imperative to rush asap Revision and Extension of the Special Comprehensive Plan for the Protection and Rehabilitation of the Joint Historical Site of Lorca.
Amendment is proposed overarching body delineation Castle, sectors I and II and possibly other historic neighborhoods that provide a common strategy from Calvary to San Cristobal and from the north side of the Castle and Guadalentin to Avda. Juan Carlos I. It is also necessary to amend the Town Planning Regulations and Regulatory Ordinances PEPRI to adapt their requirements to the current situation and to correct errors that have gone by testing in its implementation.
The Mayor is anticipated that the Study-Analysis of the Historic City of Lorca must be delivered within a maximum period of three months from the signing of the contract and the Review-Extension of Special Protection Plan and Comprehensive Rehabilitation in the Historic Lorca must be delivered in the city of Lorca in a maximum period of 5 months from contract signature.
Recall that the historic center of Lorca has been declared a Historic-Artistic since 1964 (based on a plan of Pedro Antonio San Martin), plus Cultural Interest (BIC) integrating two reference sectors.
The main monuments are located inside the castle include the churches of San Juan, San Pedro, Santa Maria, San Patricio Collegiate Chapel of the Rosary, San Francisco, Porche de San Antonio, the City Hall, Palace Guevara, Medieval Wall ...
Coordination meeting between municipal areas and analysis.
The Mayor reported on this issue in the context of a meeting between different areas of municipal management related Pepri review and reactivation of the Old Quarter.
It has been present Councillors Planning, Francisco Garcia, Trade, Eduardo Sánhez, Culture, Sandra Martinez, Works and Municipal Services, Angel Mecca, and Tourism, Francisco Montiel, accompanied by technicians of the different services.
Francisco Jodar has indicated that this Friday will be developed at the Chamber of Commerce of our city the day I called "Historic Campus Lorca. Basis for conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable development", organized by UCAM Chamber of Commerce and City Council, and in collaborating the Regional Union of Entrepreneurs of Construction, the Ministry of Territorial Planning, Building and Urban Development of the CARM.
(General Directorate General) and the College of Architects of Murcia.
The Mayor said that this day is going to bring to the table everything you need to know what to do on each site.
With experience, we have the challenge of adapting work to make a good diagnosis, which significantly help sessions like this and take action quickly to a new regulatory framework that serves to properly maintain and preserve the Historic Precinct.
The impact of the earthquake is important, but we must make a virtue of necessity, focus on the subject not as a problem but as an opportunity.
It is important to know what went wrong and how we can correct it.
Among the issues to be analyzed must note the following:
Review Grade 2 buildings with protection having more problems.
Keeping some facades.
Contradictions laws rehabilitation
Definition of the degree of protection.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca