Benidorm will approve the final version of the 'Ensanche Levante' Partial Plan next week in the plenary session

The plenary session of Benidorm will approve next Wednesday, and definitively, the final version of the Partial Plan 1/1 'Ensanche Levante', a proposal by the Councilor for Urban Planning, Lourdes Caselles, which will previously be ruled on tomorrow, Friday, in the information commission of Internal Regime.

Once the proposal is approved, the land owners will begin the procedures for drafting the urbanization and parcelling project for the sector, which occupies an area of 575,371.20 square meters of land. “This is the most important urban sector in the municipality in terms of surface area included in the 1990 General Plan,” recalled the mayor, Toni Pérez.

The plenary approval proceeds once the City Council has been notified of the Strategic Environmental and Territorial Declaration (DATE) and once the determinations and recommendations have been completed, which have given way to the final version of the Partial Plan formulated by the Group. of Urban Interest (AIU) that promotes its development.

The final approval proposal that will go to full approval includes a non-technical summary of the final version, the urban planning regulations that will govern, as well as different studies and reports. Among them, are an environmental and strategic study, demand for water resources, landscape integration, flood risk, sustainable traffic and mobility, and acoustics. Also a report on economic viability, economic sustainability, a gender impact evaluation report and a public participation plan. It also includes an annexe on the reserve of school land and another on the archaeological heritage impact.

In this sense, the mayor has highlighted that the project foresees an area of 13,917 square meters in two plots for educational uses. These plots are included in the more than 95,000 square meters planned for equipment. The partial plan also includes a large central park of 61,629 m2, almost 13,000 m2 of gardens and more than 23,000 free pedestrian spaces.

The partial plan will allocate 65% of the land for public facilities and green areas and 35% for the construction of residential, tourist homes and hotels. “The properties will have a minimum height of 20 floors, so the vertical city model characteristic of Benidorm will be followed, which has made us a benchmark in terms of sustainability,” stated Pérez.

According to the project, the number of tourist homes will be 1,564, while the number of residential apartments will be around 780. The number of hotel establishments planned is around twenty.

The plenary agreement also includes requiring the AIU to prepare monitoring reports on the effects on the environment and the territory derived from the application of the plan that verify compliance with its forecasts and objectives every two years, by the indicators included therein, and submit it to the environmental body, accrediting it in the municipal file.

Plan Parcial 3/1

On the other hand, the mayor of the city, Toni Pérez, met yesterday with the owners of the land, the technicians and the urban development agent of the Partial Plan 3/1 Industrial to offer details of the new projects and the reassessment that the company must present in the coming months. At this meeting, the reports from the Ministry of Development and the Department of the Environment on the modification of the layout of the affected livestock routes were also discussed.