CARM.es - The Community subsidises the 'green corridor' project in Fortuna to improve the town centre environment and landscape
08/04/2022
The municipality receives the first call for proposals for grants to implement Nature-based Solutions
The intervention is outlined in the Sustainable Architecture and Construction Strategy (EACS)
The Autonomous Community subsidises the drafting of the project to create a 'green corridor' connecting Avenida Salvador Allende with Fortuna cemetery with the aim improving the environment and landscape in the town centre, by planting native plant species and implementing sustainable drainage systems.
The project will also include adapting access to the municipal cemetery, which consists of two plots with a total surface area of 3,975 metres squared, and naturalising some land located next to the medical centre.
Today, the managing director of Territory and Architecture, Jaime Pérez Zulueta and the mayor of Fortuna, Catalina Herrero, presented this initiative which is the beneficiary of the first call for regional grants to implement Nature-based Solutions (NBS).
"The regional government is promoting the different measures collected in the Sustainable Architecture and Construction Strategy (EACS) with the aim of creating more pleasant and healthier municipalities and contributing to coping with climate change," he highlighted.
Pérez Zulueta anticipated that as well as landscaping and planting trees, the NBS implemented in Fortuna will be structural pits, infiltration ditches, floodable flowerbeds and light-coloured pavement "which will reduce the 'heat island' effect and improve air quality and the visual landscape of these spaces, whilst leading to sustainable management of run-off water".
The managing directer noted that the project, which has obtained a regional grant of 15,000 euros, will create investment of 1,160,000 euros. He pointed out that the total budget for the line of grants is 400,00 euros and this will mobilise an investment of 5.4 million euros. It will be allocated to financing projects to sustainably manage rain water, mitigate the heat island effect, air purity and quality and interventions in public urban spaces.
In addition to Fortuna, the municipalities benefiting from these regional grants are Abanilla, Bullas, Librilla, Ojós, Águilas, Pliego, Puerto Lumbreras, Yecla, San Javier, Jumilla, Alhama de Murcia, Fuente Álamo, Alcantarilla, Cieza, Cehegín, Albudeite, Alguazas, Las Torres de Cotillas, Molina de Segura, Abarán, Ceutí, Lorquí, Cartagena, Totana and Santomera.
Photograph: The managing director of Territory and Architecture, Jaime Pérez Zulueta and the mayor of Fortuna, Catalina Herrero, at the presentation of the grant awarded for the implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NBS).
Statements: Statements from the director of Territory and Architecture, Jaime Pérez Zulueta, about the grant awarded to the Fortuna local government for the implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NBS)
