At the beginning of last month, the PGOU spent its first anniversary sitting on a desk, somewhere in the offices of the Junta de Andalucía, dead in the water.
In that time absolutely nothing has happened to it, except collect dust, because the Junta won’t even begin to look at it until the Almuñécar Town Hall sends the missing documentation in the form of environmental impact reports, etc. And after one year of waiting, these required reports have still not been handed over. And, when we are talking about missing documents, we’re talking about 21 in all.
The Junta says that once all the required paperwork is in their possession, it would take only two months to give it the thumbs up or not. Whether that is true or not, is one thing, but it still makes it very surprising that twelve months have been wasted in the meantime.
The referendum didn’t, nor won’t, make one iota of difference to this, as everybody knew, including, one may suspect, the Mayor. What has changed, perhaps, is that the Mayor, as a result of the referendum, has agreed to work closely with the Junta to get the PGOU through, but for a different reason that an impartial observer might expect; i.e., not because two thirds of Los Almuñequeros didn’t bother to vote, but because the Mayor interpreted that those that did wanted the PGOU to prosper.