What is covered by Town & Country Planning in Spain. The results consequent upon 16 years the re-drafting of the Land Use Law made in 1976

Abstract

At the present moment and after a period in which Public Administration has carried through a major drive to extend the reach of town planning, its coverage has now taken in some 65% of the 8.100 Spain's Municipal Boroughs (those in which 95% of its population dwell and which represent 94% of the housing available) under the aegis of General Planning, its Supplementary Municipal Norms and Projects for a Defining of Urban Land. This notwithstanding, that part of the Nations whole area still outside the scope of any specific planning (74%) is grounds for concern in terms of protecting this same in its non-apt-for-development status, this along with certain other features of general planning importance. In the near future, to the need for an extending of planning to minor local government level, this along with a call for solutions here of specific problems of management and indiscipline, must be added a drive towards a greater quality here. This is of special importance for this paper given the planning revaluation now under way as this will affect the greater part of the Spanish population due, among other things, to its concommitant obligation for and adapting to the norms of the new 1990 Land Use Act. The paper offers various grapha and figures that give a break down of the degree of planning coverage enjoyed at the present as against this for 1977, this both for Autonomous Regional Communities and population sizes.