Matosinhos City Council has partially suspended, for two years, the Municipal Master Plan (PDM) to allow the construction of the technological innovation centre "Fuse Valley"
"The proposal to suspend the plan is thus essential, otherwise it will make it impossible to carry out an important project for the municipality," said the local authority, led by socialist Luísa Salgueiro.
This project will create 12,000 qualified jobs in the tertiary and information technology sectors, strengthening the municipality's economic development prospects, it said.
According to the Câmara, the "significant" job creation contributes to the eventual settlement of new residents.
Furthermore, the project materialises, through private investment, the requalification of the Chantre junction - the entrance to the municipality of Matosinhos from the centre of Maia - and promotes new accesses from the National Road 13 (EN13) to the municipal urban network.
In addition, the cession of land for green areas for collective use (about 4.5 hectares on the banks of the river Leça), through the cession of land foreseen in the project, provides the framework and connection of the Parque da Paz and the Leça Green Corridor (bicycle path) with the surrounding area.
The local authority maintains that the project has already been subject to a favourable Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
"As a result, exceptional circumstances resulting from a significant change in the outlook for local economic and social development, incompatible with the implementation of the options set out in the plan, are verified. These are reasons related to administrative procedural errors that should not prevent the viability of this urban operation, which is of fundamental importance for the economic and social transformation of the territory," it stresses.
At stake is the construction of the technological innovation centre "Fuse Valley", in Leça do Balio, Matosinhos, in the district of Porto, with 140 thousand square meters, of which 60 thousand will be occupied by Farfetch (luxury fashion platform), according to information on the official website of the city council.
The remaining space will be owned by Castro Group (a real estate development company) and will be occupied by office and service buildings, a hotel with 75 rooms, 42 flats, an open-air amphitheatre, among other facilities.
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