DESCRIPTION
Bejís is a municipality belonging to the Alto Palancia region, characterized by a mountainous relief, crossed by river channels. The rugged relief, with altitudes ranging from 1,475 m. from Peña Juliana at 600 m. from Las Ventas, we can talk about two types of weather: the one near the valley, warmer, and that of the continental Mediterranean-type mountains. This causes a variety of vegetation that manifests itself in different landscapes.
From the landscape point of view, the 4,294.2 hectares of the municipal area present images of great beauty due to the abundant vegetation and the steep terrain. Logically, the danger of this type of soil is forest fires, as has been demonstrated in recent dates with devastating accidents. The forest and landscape wealth of Bejís constitutes, as will be explained later, one of the hallmarks of the people that any planning that can be written must preserve.
The term of Bejís is included in the Wind Plan of the Valencian Community, pending development at the time of beginning the processing of this PGOU, so that the physiognomy of the term could suffer an important alteration with the appearance of the “wind farms” .
Bejís is a municipality whose structural problems at the time of writing the plan, in the urban area, had emerged as an expression of the natural exhaustion of the previous model, by the simple passage of time. It seemed necessary, with the perspective of all these years of application of the previous regulations, to implement a new philosophy capable of avoiding this “denaturalization” of the indigenous rural architecture, which has done so much damage to the Spanish municipalities. When we visit Bejís we see in most of the buildings of the last decades, the same vulgarity that can be seen in many other constructions of many towns, whose urban development has occurred spontaneously and with our backs to what we could call as an “urban setting harmonic”.
This general plan introduced a set of determinations that had little to do with those that had been allowing the evolution of the last decades. It also contributed important spaces capable of producing structural changes in the different towns of the municipality, conveniently designed to avoid possible harmful effects on the natural and built environment. And fundamentally, the PGOU was a much more complete document than the NNSS in its normative content, adapted to the Valencian regional legislation in force in 2001.
DETAILS OF THE PROJECT
Locality: Bejís (Castellón, España); Promoter: City Council of Bejís; Municipal term area: 4,238 Ha.; Urban land: 24 Ha.; Able for urbanise Land: 3 Ha.; Not able for urbanise Land: 2,211 Ha.; Population cores: 5; Processing status: Definitely approved