The Municipality of Loulé will initiate two processes related to the revision of the PDM, which aim, on the one hand, to increase the possibilities of building infrastructures of public interest in rural areas and, on the other, to adapt this municipal instrument to the norms of the Special Spatial Planning Plans (PEOT).
The two proposals to start procedures for changes to the Municipal Master Plan of Loulé (PDM) were unanimously approved this Wednesday, at the Chamber Meeting, at a time when this strategic instrument for the management of spatial planning for the municipality is in place. still under review.
The most "substantial" of the two approved proposals involves initiating a procedure for amending the PDM regulations, whose objective is to provide a "positive and timely response to the need for the development and installation of strategic projects for the municipality, with a view to admitting, as a exceptional, the construction and expansion of either infrastructure or collective facilities of public and/or private initiative, of unequivocal public interest", which "desirably should not be located on urban land, or even where the removal of the respective location of urban areas', according to the City Council of Loulé.
«The executive has in mind, with this proposal, to open the legal and regulatory possibility of installation and/or expansion, in rural land, namely: social, teaching and public safety facilities; of cemeteries; animal collection and reception centers as well as veterinary centres; from shipyards, workshops and municipal warehouses; of water reservoirs; supply water and/or waste water pumping stations; of water and sewage treatment plants; municipal solid waste treatment or transfer stations; of electrical substations; of telecommunications antennas; wind, photovoltaic or other infrastructure for the production of renewable energy; shooting ranges or composting stations», listed the municipality.
«Basically, the intention is to respond to the level of creation of equipment that, in the current PDM, can only be located in urban areas, but which the municipality considers that, by their nature, they should not be in urban areas, rather on the contrary, they must be far from these nuclei. In other words, we are talking about equipment that serves purposes and is of manifest public interest for the entire community and, as such, must be recognized by the Municipal Assembly», explains Heloísa Madeira, councilor responsible for Planning and Urbanism.
The other approved proposal starts 'the procedure for amending the PDM by adapting the PDM to the PEOT and concerns the need to transpose the rules that establish permitted, conditioned or prohibited actions, relating to the occupation, use and transformation of the soil, of the special planning plans of the territory with an impact on the municipality of Loulé: Land Use Plan for the Ria Formosa Natural Park (POPNRF) and the Land Plan for the Coastal Edge (POOC) Vilamoura-Vila Real de Santo António and Burgau-Vilamoura».
"This is a decision that is justified by the impossibility of completing the PDM review process until the next July 13, 2021, a deadline defined in the Legal Regime of Territorial Management Instruments (RJIGT) for the fulfillment of this legal transposition", he explained the Chamber of Loulé.
According to municipal officials, this is a procedure that does not involve any autonomous planning decision, but which, if it did not take place by July 13, 2021, could culminate in the «rejection of project applications for access to benefits or funds national or community, as well as the non-signature of program contracts by the municipality».
On the other hand, it would prevent the carrying out, in the areas covered by the respective special spatial planning plans, “of any acts or operations that involve the occupation, use and transformation of the soil”.
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