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Huermur has requested in writing to the City of Murcia to continue with the processing of the special Special Plan for the protection of the archaeological site of San Esteban which is required by the heritage law and that it should be finished in 2013, but is still stuck in a drawer of the Consistory.
The conservation entity points out that this necessary urban planning instrument must be definitively approved and completed before carrying out any type of intervention or work in the archaeological site declared BIC.
Huermur criticizes that this important Andalusian era site has already been weathering for a decade and hit by the inclement weather, without definitive and effective solutions for its musealization and enhancement.
A situation that assumes that each passing day is a lost opportunity to create tourism and economic wealth in the capital.
The Association for the Conservation of the Garden and Heritage of Murcia (Huermur) has requested in writing to the City of Murcia the continuation and the necessary speed in the procedure to definitively approve the due Special Plan of the San Esteban deposit in the center of the city.
A special plan of mandatory approval and compliance established by the Law of Heritage of the Region of Murcia, to regulate the uses and actions that can be carried out in this important site declared of Cultural Interest with category of BIC Archaeological Zone.
Huermur points out that this urban planning instrument is the first thing that must be finally completed and approved before carrying out any type of work or intervention in this cultural legacy of Murcia.
This is a Special Plan that requires the Cultural Heritage Law that must be processed and approved as stipulated in the Land Law of the Region of Murcia, where after the initial approval and period of public participation, through the presentation of allegations, it is due finally approve and publish in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia.
Unfortunately, it has already been more than six years late, since it had to be completed according to the law in 2013, that is, within a maximum period of two years after its declaration as BIC in 2011 after the request of Huermur and other pro-heritage groups .
But it is paralyzed after its initial approval in January 2018, and since then what the City Council is doing is working with a Master Plan that cannot replace the Special Plan established by the Law.
We are facing a unique archaeological site in the Spanish east, dating from the eleventh-thirteenth centuries, but which for more than a decade has been weathering and whipped without remedy by the inclement weather.
Ten years lost, they emphasize from Huermur, without definitive and effective solutions for its musealization and enhancement.
A situation that assumes that each passing day is a lost opportunity to create tourism and an unprecedented economic wealth in the capital.
In the same vein, Huermur denounces the inaction of the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Government during all these years of delay, to force the City Council of Murcia to adapt the urban planning and the General Urban Planning Plan to the BIC protection of the suburb Andalusi, as mandated by article 37 and 44 of Law 4/2007 of Cultural Heritage of the Region of Murcia.
“For years we had to attend to see how the San Esteban site was filled with weeds, it was flooded, and the protection geotextile was literally undone under the sun, because the City Council and its leaders only take photos, take projects and contests that remain in wet paper over time, and appear to do something for our history, ”says Huermur President Sergio Pacheco.
For all these reasons, Huermur asks the City Council and those responsible for it to stop advertising and propaganda, and get to work at once to finish the San Esteban Site's Special Plan properly and in accordance with the law.
Pumps that don't work
Coincidentally this week the Ministry of Culture has notified Huermur, almost five months after the complaint, the report made after the flooding of the archaeological site of San Esteban at the end of April 2019.
In this report of the General Directorate of Cultural Property, it is literally recognized among other things that “In one of these visits (Saturday April 20) the lack of mechanical effectiveness of the bombs was verified, so the presence of the Fire Department was claimed who proceeded to the removal and evacuation of the areas of water accumulation with mobile bombs (…) ”, that the shoringings lost strength due to the softening of the ground, or that“ there were some small damages in a timely manner, specifically the fall of interiors of walls of earth tapial, partial fall of some profiles and some bricks in walls of compartmentalization and tie-downs. ”
A pronouncement from the Ministry of Culture that shows the protection measures that exist in this BIC field, as well as the lack of adequate maintenance that guarantees the effectiveness of the measures installed, a situation of lack of control that Huermur has been denouncing for years.
Source: HUERMUR
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