Public participation plan in Santa Pola

The main objectives pursued by the Santa Pola Town Council under the European URBACT - Health & GreenSpace programme are to make the municipality healthier and more sustainable and to obtain as a result the declaration of the Municipal Natural Site.

The municipality of Santa Pola has initiated the Public Participation Plan on the landscape study of the Municipal Natural Site. The municipality has opened a period of public participation that invites citizens to give their assessment on the study of the Landscape on the Mountain Chain and Cape of Santa Pola. This participatory process is carried out by means of an online survey that has several QR Codes and a translation in several languages to make participation more accessible to those Europeans and foreign countries located in the municipality. The municipality of Santa Pola has a total of 200 surveys completed by various citizens interested in the initiative on the Municipal Natural Park of the Mountain Chain and Cape of Santa Pola.

On the 01st of October 2021, in order to present the Plan for citizen participation, the Municipality of Santa Pola held an event open to the public in which it presented the landscape study of the Mountain Chain of Santa Pola.

The event was attended by several professionals in urban planning and environmental matters who explained the climatic and landscape situation of the Sierra and Cabo de Santa Pola. The importance of citizen participation in this process was also recalled.

The event was a total success of participation by different stakeholders: associations, businessmen, municipal technicians, as well as citizens who were committed to the event and interested in the benefits for the natural area of the municipality of Santa Pola of the results obtained by the Public Participation Plan within the URBACT - Health & Green Space programme.

Written by Alberto Lorente Saiz