Benidorm will allocate the 48 new urban gardens by lottery in l'Horta area on Tuesday the 30th

Benidorm City Council will hold a drawing next Tuesday, September 30th, for the 48 plots that make up the second phase of the urban garden project on Camí de la Parva, in the heart of La Huerta area. The Councillor for the Environment, Mónica Gómez, announced that "the drawing is public and will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the City Council press room, located on the first floor of the City Hall."

After the registration period closed last Wednesday, the City Council's technicians reviewed all the applications received: 102. Of these, "two were rejected, since the applicants did not meet the requirement of having been registered in Benidorm for more than a year, so ultimately, around one hundred residents will be eligible for the gardens." Gómez emphasised that "since this is a public drawing, any applicant can visit the City Council to follow it live."

The councillor noted that these new gardens are located next to the 49 plots from the first phase, which were launched in mid-2022. The initial project for this second phase "included the creation of 38 plots, a task that was left to the students of the 'T'Avalem Benidorm Jove II' program who are training in green area maintenance." However, "during the development of the project, it was possible to make greater use of the available space, expanding the planned plots by 10, all measuring 7.5 x 2.5 meters."

Once the plots have been awarded, the beneficiaries will receive a training talk on organic farming and the use of urban gardens the following week. This talk is co-financed with €1,500 by the Alicante Provincial Council as part of the call for grants to city councils for urban garden projects, awarded by the Department of Economic Development and Productive Sectors.

After completing this training talk, the successful recipients can begin cultivating their plots, always following the guidelines, which only allow organic farming and farming for personal consumption.

Regulation of Urban Gardens

The Environment Minister recalled that "as we announced a couple of weeks ago, once this new phase of La Parva is operational, we will organise the remaining urban garden areas in the city to free up any unused plots or plots whose awardees are not complying with the bidding rules, so that these plots can be used by other interested parties."

With this second phase of plots in Camí de La Parva, which will be raffled off next week, Benidorm now has a total of 171 plots available to the public in three areas of the city, all of them designated for organic farming and personal consumption. Gómez emphasised "Benidorm City Council's commitment to urban gardens, which, aside from environmental issues, have established themselves as an activity and a tool for creating community and human ties, contributing very positively to social sustainability."