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WHAT DO WE WANT FOR THE PLATJA LLARGA?
A project involving minimal intervention, one which preserves the spot's natural (landscape, flora and fauna, etc.) and historical assets. Such a project would need to be conceived, planned and followed up by a team of experts from different fields together with a process of public consultation.

 See What we are asking for from the authorities below

______  we think are worthwhile


Diagnosis-Proposal by the GEPEC / Ecologistes de Catalunya
The Platja Llarga has retained its individuality as a natural area, and it needs to be systematically protected by altering the attached local development plans in order to ensure its survival as such.

DEPANA 2001 Project
Concerning the provision for biological corridors between the beach and the inland woods.
(Document not available in electronic form)

Proposal for a SCI for the Mediterranean Region (Site of Community Interest)
Commissioned by the Councillor for the Environment, Mr. Milą.
The river GAIĄ and the ASSOCIATED COASTLINE, also includes the diagnosis for the Savinosa beach,
where a similar scheme is planned. PDF (1.52Mb)

Royal Tarragona Archaeological Society
Protecting the heritage features and significant sites around the beach:
the Republican bunker from the Spanish Civil War, the cave where King James I of Catalonia is supposed to have taken refuge in the middle ages, the drystone hut, the base of a 16th-century watchtower, the Roman quarry of La Punta de la Creueta, etc.

Tarragona city council - Ministry of public works
Planning the roundabout to provide better access to the Platja Llarga from the N-340 main road.

Other ideas or proposals to take into account
* To protect existing constructions, and not to cause too many difficulties to the people who already live and/or work around the beach.
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WHAT DO WE WANT FROM THE AUTHORITIES?
We would ask them all to be sensitive to the need to preserve this natural area.

and in particular we ask
> The Ministry of the Environment:
__ 1. To scrap the existing Coastal Plans (Promenade along the Platja Llarga and coastal path to Punta de la Móra),
__ reassigning the budgets to an "ecological plan"
__ conceived, drawn up and maintained by a multi-disciplinary team of experts, to
__ preserve the landscape features and ecosystems of the spot.
__ 2. To purchase or help to purchase the buildable land in order to preserve it.

> The Autonomous Government of Catalonia:
__ 1. To expand the Tamarit-Punta de la Móra listed Area of Natural Interest to cover the Platja Llarga
__ and the hill of Mas Rabassa, in view of the fact that there are enough species of native flora
__ to justify this.
__ 2. To purchase or help to purchase the buildable land in order to preserve it.
__ 3. Not to accept the city council's appeals aimed at going ahead with the residential development planned for the
__ hill of Mas Rabassa and keep up the idea of protecting it as envisaged in the Coastal Master Plan.
__ 4. To set up a PARC NATURAL DE LES TERRES DEL GAIĄ to preserve the basin of the river Gaią
__ and the stretch of coastline associated with it, which includes the Platja Llarga. This territory is the only biological
__ connector between the Mediterranean coastal region and the Pyrenees in Tarragona province.

Tarragona City Council:
__ 1. To scrap the planned residential development and, in view of the area's ecological and landscape value,
__ to alter the classification of the site so that it is no longer building land.
__ 2. To support us in our demands from the other tiers of government.

 
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