The Territorial Strategy of the Valencian Community and the Revised Text of the Law on Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and Landscape of the Valencian Community, contemplate an ideal validity of the general planning of twenty years, without establishing the necessary review of the same after that period. The Revised Text of the Law on Territorial Planning and Urban Activity of Castilla-La Mancha indicates the indefinite validity of the plans, perhaps due to the mirror effect of other urban planning legislations in which its authors were inspired. In any case, it is the ordinary passage of time and the transformation of the social, legal and economic framework that determines, for obvious reasons, the need to adapt the territorial model to a changing reality that has been completely modified in twenty years.
Over the years, Master and local plans become useless instruments, alien to the reality of the territory they regulate and the needs of its population. Their absolute inadequacy to current reality determines the need to review them, adapting and improving their content and making the plan a basic tool for economic development. To illustrate the changes (in the era of artificial intelligence), it is enough to point out that, even today, many municipalities are regulated by a planning instrument prepared with analogue means and with a content that barely includes very basic determinations. The review of the planning therefore becomes an objective that should be unavoidable for a responsible city council, as it serves not only to regulate the territory, but also to preserve its environmental, landscape and heritage values, without giving up the growth and structuring of the ordered territory. Good general planning is the basis on which to project an economically sustainable model of growth. However, despite the changes introduced by some regional administrations to simplify and speed up certain procedures, the processing of a general plan remains so complex that most local corporations avoid promoting the revision of the plan and opt for less ambitious but more feasible and short-term actions, such as planning modifications.
AUG-ARQUITECTOS, SLP, as a reference company in the field of land use planning, urban planning and heritage protection, also has a long track record in the field of planning modifications, of greater or lesser scope, having drafted 29 definitively approved modifications and being the author of another 8 modifications that are in process or in the drafting phase. As in all the actions of which AUG-ARQUITECTOS, SLP is the drafter, its commitment to the town councils and companies that have entrusted its technical team with these works is firm and ensures the success of the order received.