Saturday, July 23, 2005
From Valencia Life 23.7.5
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Despite being in a period of considerable drought, the Conselleria for theTerritory yesterday revealed that a new projected law had been passed by theConsell, and was on its way for parliamentary approval. This new law envisages that over the next ten years, the golf courses in the Valencian Community will increase from the 22 currently in existence to 65, a figure that is below the number of similar installations in Catalunia, where there are already 42 and more are planned and in Andalucia, where 90 golf courses already exist. "In some towns inside Malaga Province, there are more golf courses than there are inside the entire Valencian Community," stated the Conseller for the Territory Rafael Blasco at a press conference following the approval of the projected law by the Consell. The main points of the proposed law envisages that along with any project for any golf course, there is a detailed plan and description of how the proposed course will get its water supply, which may not be taken from that designated for agricultural use, but should either be recycled or desalinated, and theConselleria estimated that when the 65 courses are completed, their combined demands on the water supply would not exceed 23 cubic hectometers, which represents 0.4 or 05% of the total water consumed in the Valencian Community. Another point of the proposed law is that land bordering on the new golf course will not be requalified as buildable. The idea is to create natural parks around these new courses in much the same way as has been carried out in the United States. Equally the new proposed law envisages three types of courses: public, mixed and those of restricted use, with theValencian Government putting the emphasis on public courses in the first instance. Equally, the new proposals envisage only allowing the new golf courses to be set up in areas that are able to support them ' in order that they may contribute and harmonize in their own way to the local environment', and each proposal should have an extensive environmental report presented at the same time as the plans for the course, and that should include proposals that clearly ensure that at least they should be supplied with renewable energy. It was also stated that some 600,000 people come to Alicante Province annually only to play golf, and that with the installation of these newcourses it is estimated that in ten years that figure will rise to over a million and a half.
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Despite being in a period of considerable drought, the Conselleria for theTerritory yesterday revealed that a new projected law had been passed by theConsell, and was on its way for parliamentary approval. This new law envisages that over the next ten years, the golf courses in the Valencian Community will increase from the 22 currently in existence to 65, a figure that is below the number of similar installations in Catalunia, where there are already 42 and more are planned and in Andalucia, where 90 golf courses already exist. "In some towns inside Malaga Province, there are more golf courses than there are inside the entire Valencian Community," stated the Conseller for the Territory Rafael Blasco at a press conference following the approval of the projected law by the Consell. The main points of the proposed law envisages that along with any project for any golf course, there is a detailed plan and description of how the proposed course will get its water supply, which may not be taken from that designated for agricultural use, but should either be recycled or desalinated, and theConselleria estimated that when the 65 courses are completed, their combined demands on the water supply would not exceed 23 cubic hectometers, which represents 0.4 or 05% of the total water consumed in the Valencian Community. Another point of the proposed law is that land bordering on the new golf course will not be requalified as buildable. The idea is to create natural parks around these new courses in much the same way as has been carried out in the United States. Equally the new proposed law envisages three types of courses: public, mixed and those of restricted use, with theValencian Government putting the emphasis on public courses in the first instance. Equally, the new proposals envisage only allowing the new golf courses to be set up in areas that are able to support them ' in order that they may contribute and harmonize in their own way to the local environment', and each proposal should have an extensive environmental report presented at the same time as the plans for the course, and that should include proposals that clearly ensure that at least they should be supplied with renewable energy. It was also stated that some 600,000 people come to Alicante Province annually only to play golf, and that with the installation of these newcourses it is estimated that in ten years that figure will rise to over a million and a half.
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