The City Council will give the green light to PRI of the casino hotel in the next plenary

The Benidorm City Council will approve the Interior Reform Plan (PRI) of the hotel projected by Convalesa company next to Mediterráneo Casino next week. The final approval of this document, which updates the one presented in 2014 and which plans to increase the floors of the hotel to 37, has been ruled favorably today in the Urban Planning Information Commission, once the PRI's public exposure period has ended without allegations .

The Town Planning Councilor, Lourdes Caselles, explained that "this PRI regulates how the company will compensate the City Council, and by extension to the city, in exchange for building more floors than initially planned." Caselles recalled that this possibility is regulated in the punctual modification number 1 of the General Plan of 'Hotel Incentivation', which allows the buildability of the common areas of hotel establishments not compute, so that those square meters can be used for more and bigger rooms.

The councillor has pointed out that the modification of the General Plan for ‘Hotel Incentivation’ establishes several forms of compensation, all of them linked to increasing the municipal land assets. Thus, hotels that want to make more rooms or larger ”will have to yield to the City Council two linear meters of facade to increase the size of the sidewalks, and thus improve the pedestrian espace. If compensation is not covered with these meters of façade, the establishments must also provide endowment land or cash for the City to acquire. ”

In this case, based on the first PRI of the hotel, the company already gave the City Hall the 2 meters of the facade on Mediterráneo Avenue when the company built the casino and paid just over 29,000 euros, so now “the supplementary contribution that it must make to complete the compensation ”. A contribution that the company will enter the municipal coffers and amounting to 140,568.77 euros.

The casino hotel was the first PRI that took advantage of the ‘Hotel Incentivation’. In 2019 the City Council has approved two other PRIs. The councillor has stressed that "with this figure of urban planning we are promoting the renovation of the hotel plant, which at the same time increases its category." In addition, there are currently several more at different stages of processing.