The environmental group warns that the project contemplates significant urban expansion on non-developable or protected land, which they consider contrary to the municipal obligation to defend the general interests, the natural, and rural environment of the municipality.
According to Ecologistas en Acción, the plan promotes a model of massive growth that could lead to the collapse of infrastructure, mobility, and services. The construction of approximately 3,000 new homes would imply the arrival of about 7,000 new residents and an additional 6,000 vehicles. The organization criticizes that these population calculations are erroneous and inflated to justify unnecessary expansion.
The platform alerts about the "serious problems" the plan would cause for residents, including the "destruction of the environment" by reclassifying millions of square meters of rural and protected land. They also point to the collapse of roads, affecting already saturated routes, and the disregard for the Community of Madrid's decision to discard the duplication of the M-600. Furthermore, they criticize "deficient" basic services, such as an obsolete sewage system that mixes fecal and rainwater, and the lack of social rental housing measures for young people or vulnerable sectors.
In a statement, the collective describes the plan as "brutal, dispersed, and destructive urban expansionism," which aims to further promote this trend. They argue that the plan attempts to justify urban dispersion through construction in rural and natural areas, "prescribing the same disease as a remedy."
They regret that, despite the negative results of this model, the new General Plan Advance opts for an "enormous and irrational" expansion, depleting the territory to absurd levels and proposing the destruction of hundreds of hectares of living land. They also warn of the government team's intention to subsequently reclassify a large area of protected non-developable land in the south of the municipality, under the designation "Nuevo Eje Sur," which does not appear in the Advance.
Regarding the public exhibition process, Ecologistas en Acción criticizes that the City Council "forced the download of information in 83 files and the submission of allegations during the summer months," concluding in August, thereby limiting citizen participation.
