The Plano Cañada (Cañada plan) is a neighbourhood proposal for the urban rehabilitation, dedicated to sectors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of Cañada Real Galiana, and aims to provide solutions that contribute to the regularisation of the situation of its inhabitants. The Plano Cañada seeks fundamentally, the recognition of the reality which the Cañada Real Galiana has finally become: a lively urban reality where thousands of people develop their ordinary life, in constant interaction with the territory and the urban environment that surrounds it.
To achieve these objectives, the Plano Cañada is part of a series of unavoidable axioms on which it leans and from where it develops: the „city“ remains and the neighbours stay and participate.
The Plan understands that the most viable and sustainable option is to regulate the existing city in the Cañada, integrating it in the territory and within the other urban developments that surround it and with which it interacts. It is the most viable and sustainable option from all points of view: economical, social, urban, and environmental.
From the moment on, it is admitted that the urban reality of the Cañada Real Galiana must be recognised and regularised, it is inevitable to face the fact, that neighbours do not want to and can not be displaced from the city they helped to create and develop. It is therefore, from a social and economic point of view, more realistic and sustainable to support the rehabilitation of the existing homes.
The Plan defends the active participation of the main protagonists in the whole process: the residents of the Cañada. It is vital and an indispensable requirement that neighbours actively participate (in collaboration with the public agents involved) in the processes that are generated, according to the urban and legal regularisation of the Cañada; from the agreement of the action to be taken, through the Instruments of planning, till the management of the urbanistic processes that need to be undertaken.
The management of the process requires administrative coordination and the participation of neighbours, before, during and after the process of urban development. These efforts should focus on various appropriated formats such as the creation of an urban consortium, in which both the involved administrations and the neighbours would be involved.
It is necessary to have a correct economic-financial forecast of the whole process, both for the development of the corresponding planning, and for the management of the Cañada Real area, its urbanisation, conservation, and maintenance. Therefore the process requires temporary programming, forecasting revenue, and financing (both public and private); as well as the forecast of expenses in which to use these resources to achieve the objectives sought by the Plan.
The urban planning concept of the Plano Cañada establishes a road map that first, as a priority, addresses the existing real estate in Cañada. This way, a housing rehabilitation plan can be established if necessary, thus reinforcing the budget on which the urban rehabilitation plan is based.
An action is planed to obtain vacant plots in the Cañada which allows the implantation of a network of public spaces, green areas, equipment and facilities. After the analysis of the population, which will reveal the needs of the neighbours, and the structure of the existing territory, the existing demands will be specified. The equipment and facilities will have to correspond to the characteristics of the populations needs, that will have been determined. The type and dimensions of the urbanisation and the existing public equipment should be specified, as well as the needs of connections with the general infrastructure to ensure continuity within the urban environment.
