Ten years of validity of the Land-use Planning of the Andalusia Territory

Lights and shadows of territorial planning. The denaturation of the compact city model

Abstract

The entry into force of the Land-use Planning of the Andalusian Territory, at the end of 2006, caused a great commotion in the “status quo” of the urban planning of our community which, in the shelter of the “real estate tsunami” of those years, adopted an expansive derived, sustained drift in a disproportionate classification of land. The impact caused by the establishment of limits to growth in rule 45 of the POTA generated fierce controversy that ultimately ended with the surrender of the autonomous administration which was launched to design a series of “counter-measures” that mitigated the consequences of compliance with this regulation, notably “spasmodic succession” of instructions drawn up by the Secretary General of planning -or the General Direction of urban planning , according to the case- for the purposes of establishing the rules to apply for its technical services for the reporting of territorial incidence to the initial approval of the general urban plannings.