Sitges City Council has submitted formal clarification requests regarding the preliminary draft of the Penedès Partial Territorial Plan (PTPP) this past June 7, to obtain more details with regard to planning in aspects such as the environment and the protection of open spaces. The Councilor for Urban Planning and Action of the Sitges City Council, Carme Gasulla Blanco, stated that “we need to see clearly how we move towards the sustainability of our beaches and our coastline” and added that “for us, the plan is missing a clear pronouncement on strategic places in Sitges”.

In the demands presented by the City Council, reference is also made to the special situation in the areas of housing and mobility experienced in the municipality.

The preliminary project is an urban planning tool proposed by the Generalitat de Catalunya that intends to establish a sustainable and resilient territorial model, which integrates environmental, social, economic variables and specifically, the adaptation and mitigation of climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Among the objectives is also to moderate the exploitation of land, prioritising urban recycling and minimizing further urban sprawl on open spaces, to guarantee a compact and complex urban model that enhances a coexistence of different activities. With these strategic approaches, the idea is to improve urban quality, integrating people’s health and social well-being, whilst at the same time introducing regulatory measures vis a vis second residences and other tourist accommodation.

Transport

The proposal aims to promote local, sustainable and integrated mobility in the territory, encouraging collective public transport and connectectivity between different forms of transport.

What Sitges town hall would like is a joint commission between all administrations in the area o ensure that no transport capacity is lost and that existing local transport plans are protected