Nerja approves the specific modification of elements of its urban planning

The Nerja City Council has reached the final approval of the specific modification of elements of its General Urban Development Plan (PGOU), according to the announcement published by the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga (BOP) in its issue dated November 4, 2026, within section 3, dedicated to city councils. The agreement is officially identified as Edict 3387/2026 and appears in the summary under the heading “Final approval of the specific modification of elements of the General Urban Development Plan.”

The announcement shares a number with seventeen other edicts from city councils in the province, on a day with a heavy urban and economic load. Final approval is the step that closes the municipal processing of a planning innovation: it means that the file has passed the initial approval, the public information process, and the resolution of the allegations presented, and that the instrument is now in a position to deploy its determinations on the affected land. The summary of the gazette identifies the body, the subject matter, and the reference of the agreement; the detail of the specific determinations corresponds to the text of the edict.

What the gazette publishes and with what reference

• Issuing body: Nerja City Council.
• Subject matter: specific modification of elements of the General Urban Development Plan.
• Administrative phase: final approval.
• Official reference: Edict 3387/2026.
• Publication: BOP of Málaga, issue of November 4, 2026, section 3 (City Council).

The reference 3387/2026 is what allows the file to be located and for parties to appear before the council, and it is the data that owners, developers, and technicians must provide to certify the validity of the planning in a sale, a license, or a development.

Specific modification, not plan revision

The approved figure is a specific modification of elements, not a general revision of the PGOU. The difference is relevant in practical terms: a revision rethink the territorial model and the complete organization of the municipality, while a specific modification acts on concrete determinations of the plan without replacing its structure. Therefore, the effect is concentrated in the areas and files that the record has identified, and not in the entirety of the municipal district.

The announcement does not detail in its header which elements of the plan are altered nor the affected areas, so verifying whether a specific plot is included requires consulting the text of the edict and the documentation of the file.

Nerja, second reference of the same day, and other towns in processing

Nerja signs two announcements in this issue of the gazette:

• Edict 3387/2026: final approval of the specific modification of elements of the PGOU (General Urban Development Plan).
• Edict 4232/2026: final list of admitted and excluded persons, tribunal, and exam date for one Industrial Technical Engineer position.

The same bulletin reflects that planning activity extends to the rest of the province. Alhaurín de la Torre submits for public information the change of the expropriation action system to the cooperation system in sector UR-TQ-01 (Edict 4187/2026), and Fuengirola initiates the land consolidation in areas SUNC-4 and SUNC-7 of its PGOU (Edicts 4082/2026 and 4099/2026). Regarding local regulations, Casares publishes the final approval of Regulatory Ordinance number 88 of the Municipal Clean Point (Edict 3991/2026).

What this means for owners and developers

The final approval makes the modification the mandatory reference for any intervention on the concerned lands: the land and building conditions set by the plan become those of the modified text, and projects processed from now on must comply with them. For the owners of plots included in the affected areas, the change may alter the land use, the permitted uses, or the associated urbanization charges.

Interested parties should verify their specific situation before formalizing operations, as the publication in the bulletin marks the moment from which the modification becomes enforceable and deploys its administrative effectiveness.

The move by the Nerja City Council adds to a sequence of planning decisions that are redefining the land of several municipalities in Málaga in the final stretch of the year. For the affected reader—a plot owner, a developer with land in their portfolio, or a resident of an area in transformation—the key lies in a specific reference, Edict 3387/2026, published in the BOP of Málaga on November 4, 2026: it is the document that determines if their land falls within the new framework and under what rules it can be built upon.

Source: BOP of the Province of Málaga, issue of November 4, 2026, 3rd section (City Council), official reference: Edict 3387/2026.