According to an announcement by the Limassol Municipality, Mayor Nicos Nicolaides and other speakers , stressed the necessity for immediate changes in order for Limassol to avoid the unpleasant consequences of climate change, warming and desertification.
As mentioned during the presentation, objective criteria for assessing and classifying spatial information were adopted for the spatial planning of the park, leading to the preparation of a decision-making tool. This tool, it was added, formed the basis for the categorization of the proposed development sites of the park, which took into account the immediate need for the creation of an area of high ecological quality with a catalytic contribution to the environmental upgrading of Greater Limassol.
It is noted that this is not a single green space, but a network of urban and peri-urban green spaces, with a coherent and interdependent relationship between them, i.e. the green spaces (regardless of size) will be linked together to create a large metropolitan park.
The location of the Park covers areas of the Municipalities of Limassol, Mesa Gitonia, Germasogeia, Ayios Athanasios, Kato Polemidia and Ypsonas and according to the designers, this ensures the expansion of the Park across the entire spread of Greater Limassol, while reinforcing the concept of metropolitan space and potential universal use by all citizens of Greater Limassol.
The study was commissioned to a team of consultants under the Environmental Manager Dr. Nicolas Iliades and for its preparation the guidelines and provisions of the existing Limassol Local Plan (2011) and the strategic study for the sustainable development of Greater Limassol, "Integrated Limassol Development" were taken into account.
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