The Environmental Prosecutor’s Office, the Urban Planning Inspectorate of the Authority, the local police of the province and the technicians of the Provincial Delegation of Cordoba who provide urban planning services and Territorial Planning in Small Municipalities held a technical coordination meeting on Thursday which was presented by the Attorney General, Fernando Sobron.
The meeting, which was held at the Palace of Justice, was convened by the deputy prosecutor in charge of the Environment, Maria Eugenia Bautistawho was accompanied by the Provincial Inspector of Land and Urban Planning of the Commission, Nicanor García, and the environmental prosecutors, María Trinidad Cerezo and Azahara Buendía.
Sobron stressed that this technical meeting responds to “the concern of the Prosecutor’s Office, reflected in the reports of recent years, concerning the proliferation of irregular buildings and the resurgence of the parcel phenomenon on undevelopable land which had diminished in the years preceding the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 as well as the installation of prefabricated houses in rural areas.
The meeting highlighted the need for all stakeholders involved in land use planning to improve management and to do this it is essential allow mutual knowledge functions in the area of environmental prosecution, land use planning and town planning, and the town planning inspection of the Junta de Andalucía, state security forces and bodies, police attached to the autonomous community and the local police.
In this sense, during the meeting it was declared that Law 7/21 of December 1, promoting the sustainability of the territory in Andalusia, strengthened the functions of the Inspection and created a body of urban sub-inspectorsso that coordination and knowledge of their functions are particularly timely.
The objective of the technical coordination meeting, as explained by the Environmental Prosecutor, María Eugenia Bautista, “is to know first-hand the reality of the territory and to think about the best way to achieve our professional duties satisfy the social interest aroused by this affair because, on the one hand, the offender has little awareness of the seriousness of his behaviorand in response to this, civil society is increasingly demanding decisive action from public authorities so that the non-offending citizen perceives that the law is applied.
Extreme risk of fire or flood zones
Likewise, Bautista stressed that work will also be done on the fact that part of the territory is classified as dangerous. fireside either it is floodable, which requires special attention in order to avoid risks or reduce them as much as possible.
“We want to contribute, within the framework of our skills – declared the head of the Environment sector of the Public Prosecutor’s Office – to the eradication of these behaviors by promoting culture of respect planned urban planning, law and the rights of citizens, including those of future generations.
The Supreme Court declares, as reported in a note from the Prosecutor’s Office of the TSJA of Granada, that “urban planning includes, neither more nor less, that the balance of citiesagglomerations in general and, as the concept of city is abstract, it also integrates the physical and psychological balance of the people who live there: harmony, coexistence, the inexcusable demands of ecology, nature and man, who must coexist, seeking the very balance of the environment which surrounds him and in which he lives.
