On June 26, 2025, the plenary session of the City Council of Benirredrà (Valencia) agreed to approve the Final Proposal for the Structural General Plan (PGE) and the Detailed Ordination Plan (POP) and submit them to the regional and local environmental bodies for the purpose of issuing the Strategic Environmental and Territorial Declaration (DATE). Thus, the plan advances and takes an important step toward final approval, pending the issuance of the SEDs for both instruments.
Benirredrà is a very small town in the Valencian Community, adjacent to Gandía, with which it shares many amenities. Despite its small size and contiguous urban fabric, the town has its own identity and offers living conditions that make it very attractive. The Master Plan aims not only to build on these initial conditions but also to improve them, directing almost all urban land toward predominantly residential use.
Awareness of the finite nature of land is very acute in Benirredrà, which explains why, since AUG-ARQUITECTOS, SLP began drafting the plan in 2019, the city council chose a very contained growth model, below the maximum limit imposed by the Territorial Strategy of the Valencian Community. It proposed a new residential development area of just 1.1 hectares and an urban regeneration project of 0.83 hectares that would allow the transformation of obsolete industrial land into a residential project, redesigning the urban space.
The General Plan of Benirredrà will replace the Subsidiary Regulations definitively approved on December 30, 1985, and six specific amendments. Of these, one has been fully implemented, while the sixth and final amendment is currently being processed. There is no Consolidated Planning Text, and the current planning is exhausted and insufficient to meet current needs, both at the structural and detailed levels.
At the structural level, the proposed territorial model is conditioned by the conurbation of Benirredrà and Gandía. The successful land management and the lack of impact on public finances with the urban planning decisions, effectively implemented by the Benirredrà City Council, set a precedent from which we must not deviate. We can only point out, as an element that should become the hallmark of the new plan, the commitment to building regulations that favor higher-quality architecture and are more focused on specific models and solutions, which are seen as overcoming the current disparity. Regarding detailed planning, we can point out, as an element that should become the hallmark of the new plan, the commitment to building regulations that favor higher-quality architecture and are more focused on specific models and solutions, which are seen as overcoming the current disparity. Also noteworthy is the desire to evolve toward a predominance of residential use, so that old manufacturing facilities, which no longer make sense, give way to urban renewal projects in which residential uses are dominant.