Respond to population growth

The process of citizen participation in the substantial modification of the General Urban Planning Plan of Villa de Ingenio comes to an end with three propositional tables in areas such as the housing solution, the uses of rural land and the urban development of developable areas taking into account demographic challenges. 'Cohousing' or enabling synergies between the development of the implementation of the airport park and that of the municipality, also linked to the industrial pool of the Polígono de Las Majoreras, are some of the proposals that citizens have put on the table in this phase of the PGOU, which will continue with the analysis and sharing of all the projects and ideas collected.

This phase open to citizen participation has had a total of five actions, two informative workshops, dedicated to the debate on the forms of development of the municipality, two work tables and this last proposal, which was held in person at the Cultural Center Federico García Lorca and which included the participation of experts in different subjects related, among others, to rural land, housing, territorial planning and anthropology.

Divided into three different tables, citizens, local administration and technical specialists addressed the challenge of housing solutions through 'cohousing', the putting into use of empty homes, the rehabilitation of houses and the revitalization of historical architectural heritage. The organization of rural land and the uses it can accommodate and its economic revitalization, are other issues that were discussed at the tables, which included the proposals for organization and uses in the new planning of the empty spaces on Avenida Los Artesanos and Cuesta Caballero, as well as the proposals related to the growth model of territory occupation in the new planning document.

The Councilor for Urbanism and Strategic Planning, Victoria Santana, thanked the citizens for their participation “which has been constant in the different workshops that we have programmed” and highlighted the “quality of the proposals made and which provide answers to the challenges that the future has in store for us.” future". The councilor stated that “we understand that there is a change of attitude in this municipality towards associations, participation and working in collaboration with the local administration, a fact that makes us pleasantly proud due to the importance of promoting agricultural land by facilitating improvement and installation of necessary infrastructures, both agricultural and livestock for professionals in the sector, and others to a lesser extent for part-time or recreational farmers, solutions to the high price of agricultural land and the lack of water for irrigation, giving prominence to youth in the sector primary education, the creation of land banks and promoting the local economy are other proposals included in these propositional tables.