Town Planning

Department of Town Planning. 

Orxeta Council’s “Departmento de Urbanismo” (Department of Town Planning) deals with the management of urban development in the municipal area.  The following are its main responsibilities:

- To create and propose for approval the council’s urban development plans, as well as those developments that do not come under the General Plan of Urban Development.

- To carry out the approved Council’s development.

- To carry out necessary studies for the continuation of the approved plan.

- To manage the “Patrimonio Municipal del Suelo” (Register of Municipal Land Use) for the purpose of acquiring, possessing, claiming, administering, taxing and the expropriating of all types of properties.

- To control private building works or developments.

- To provide all the necessary means possible so that the public has the right to access all town planning information.

- To process, and if applicable, grant major or minor works licenses, within the limits set down by law.

- To process, and if applicable, penalise any town planning infringements, within the limits set down by law on town planning regulations.

- To process and resolve, if applicable, all cases concerning the conservation, rehabilitation and ruinous state of buildings.

- To provide information or pass judgement on town planning cases whose approval corresponds to other local areas.

- To provide information and issue plot division licenses.

-  The processing of cases concerning the obtaining of 1st utilisation licenses and the licenses of 1st occupation and 2nd occupation.

- The issuing of town planning information and Development Guarantee Documents.