These are the main conclusions reached by the Quality Plan of Urban Landscape, undertaken by the city council as a tool in cultural and urban planning of the municipality.
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, said that the Quality Plan of Urban Landscape, prepared by the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain, is a very complete and comprehensive document the City Council will consider when promoting the town's development and is destined to become the theoretical basis on which to draw the best Lorca future.
We are talking about a useful tool in cultural and urban planning Lorca, as well as an element of improving the attractiveness of the municipality by which seek to establish the general and special conditions for comprehensive knowledge management and landscape protection cultural city of Lorca.
The mayor stressed that this document aims to preserve, nurture and develop all these landscape features is what this plan is born Quality Urban Landscape that, broadly speaking, raises a number of proposals across 6 strategies covering different areas.
Protection, conservation and restoration of architectural and monumental heritage, classifying certain architectural and botanical elements.
Reactivation of the historic center, a non-extendable target for Lorca and for me, as Mayor, a top priority.
This strategy includes the recovery of the traditional business, registration of traditional elements or reactivation of spaces.
Recommendations for the renewal of PEPRI, critical to the recovery of the historic center and in which we are currently immersed question are included in this section.
Enhancement of green spaces, backing the creation of new parks and natural areas.
Improved communication between neighborhoods and generating backbones.
Strategies for promoting a network of friendly communication and reconfigure the entrances to the city.
Francisco Jodar, this morning that the results of this work, together with the Deputy Director of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain, Alfonso Muñoz Cosme, and the General Director of Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Community, Maria Comas, has indicated that this plan is promoted by the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain with the assistance of the City of Lorca, having its origin in the Master Plan for the Recovery of Cultural Heritage of Lorca and consisted of two phases developed during the past eight months.
Jodar Alonso recalled that for the realization of this document, a process of public participation for all citizens had the opportunity to review their city and provide experiences and approaches opened.
Middle hundred residents participated done during the month of October in the conference convened by the Social Council of the City, providing interesting tenets of this strategy have been valued by experts at the time of preparing the final text.
The Mayor said that the development of this study shows the commitment of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain and the CARM Lorca, especially with the recovery of the municipality on the same terms that we believe Lorca.
Because it was not worth us recover what was lost, but the goal was to create a better and with great potential for future city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca