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Date Published: 26/02/2024

Aguilas Fishing Port makeover project moves ahead

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Municipal and regional authorities are making headway into a plan to finally give the old fishing port of Águilas the spruce up it so desperately needs

Aguilas Fishing Port makeover project moves ahead

The town of Águilas is taking its town planning and improvements to local facilities seriously, setting up a working group to come up with some concrete proposals for the planned renovation and remodelling works slated to take place at the Old Fishing Port, the ‘Puerto Pesquero de Águilas’.

This working group, which has been constituted by the Town Council of Águilas, aims to address the main needs of the area of the fishing port, which is located in the Port of Águilas, in the inlet formed between Punta Negra and Punta de la Aguilica, and is one of the most important tourist attractions of the town thanks to its rich history and commercial activity.

The working group is made up of representatives of the municipal and regional governments, as well as the Association of Traders and Industrialists of Águilas (ACIA), the Hotel and Tourism Association (Hosteaguilas) and the Association of Traders, all of whom will be appointed in the next few days.

The aim of this committee, whose creation was unanimously approved in plenary session of the Town Council, is to seek a solution for the problems facing the fishing port of the town. It has been a long time since the port had any TLC, and its age is beginning to show. As such, a comprehensive remodelling of the port is required, something the Council has been pushing for for a long time.

The Mayor of Águilas, Mari Carmen Moreno, said, “It is the exclusive competence of the Regional Government to act in this area and it is precisely for this reason that the Town Council has been requesting for years that they respond to these requests, as they did at the time in municipalities such as Mazarrón, where an underground car park was built and, above it, a leisure area. We therefore believe that the inclusion of the Directorate General for the Coast and Ports in this working group is fundamental.”

On this matter, the mayor explained, “There is already a project for architectural intervention in the area, which has been sent to us by the Autonomous Community, which will be studied in detail by the committee; the next step, once the project has been approved by the aforementioned committee, would be for the regional government to begin the tendering process for the project.”

While the project technically falls under the jurisdiction of the regional authorities, Águilas technicians will be intimately involved in the remodelling of the port, in line with their commitment to efficient and modern town planning practices and sustainability.

It is in this vein that Mayor Moreno recently took part in a round table discussion on the ‘Current status and challenges in urban and territorial planning in the Region of Murcia’ as part of the public presentation of the study ‘Urban and territorial planning in the Region of Murcia: current situation, challenges and opportunities’, organised by the Economic and Social Council of the Region of Murcia.

Moreno was accompanied by Fernando M. García, professor of town and country planning at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena; Margarita Ros, technician in charge of Town and Country Planning at the General Directorate of Town and Country Planning of the Region of Murcia; José Ramón Blázquez, president of the Association of Real Estate Developers of the Region of Murcia (APIRM); and Ángela de la Cruz, lawyer and expert in Town and Country Planning and civil administrator of the State.

During her speech, Mayor Moreno referred to the recent approval of the General Municipal Development Plan (PGMO) after eighteen years of processing; a document of vital importance for the municipality whose approval became a priority since the arrival of Moreno to the mayor’s office.

During the conference, the general diagnosis of the situation of urban and land planning in the Region of Murcia was widely discussed, highlighting the complexity of obtaining permits and licenses as the main challenges. Future challenges were also identified, emphasising the need to adapt planning to the new challenges of sustainability and to promote citizen participation in decision-making processes, lessons that will be incorporated into the refurbishment works planned at the Fishing Port.