Easter 2024 is presented in Benidorm with excellent prospects for the hotel business and the announcement of the final approval of its most ambitious urban plan in years. The municipal government brings to the plenary session on Holy Wednesday the final project of the Ensanche Levante partial plan, which foresees twenty hotels and more than 2,300 apartments built in skyscrapers with a minimum height of 20 floors.
This was announced yesterday by Mayor Toni Pérez (PP), who governs with an absolute majority and highlights that “the vertical city model characteristic of Benidorm that has made us a benchmark in terms of sustainability will be followed.”
According to the project, the number of tourist homes that will be created will be 1,564, while the number of residential apartments will be around 780, in addition to twenty scheduled hotel establishments.
Once the proposal is approved, the owners of the land will be able to begin the procedures for drafting the urbanization and reparcelling project for the sector, which occupies an area of ??575,371.20 square meters.
The plenary approval is carried out after the City Council has been notified of the Strategic Environmental and Territorial Declaration, and once the determinations and recommendations contained therein have been completed, which have given way to the final version of the Partial Plan formulated by the Interest Group. Urban planning 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, an environmental and strategic study, demand for water resources, landscape integration, flood risk, sustainable traffic and mobility, and acoustics.
A report on economic viability, economic sustainability, a gender impact evaluation report and a public participation plan are also provided. It also includes an annex on the reserve of school land and another on the archaeological heritage impact.
The mayor highlighted that the project provides for an area of ??13,917 square meters in two plots for educational uses. The partial plan also includes a large central park of 61,629 m2, almost 13,000 m2 of gardens and more than 23,000 of free pedestrian spaces.
The agreement that the plenary session will approve includes the requirement for the Urban Interest Group that will promote the plan to carry out monitoring reports on the effects on the environment and the territory derived from its application. They must verify compliance with the forecasts and objectives of the plan every two years, according to the indicators included therein.
