The residents of the Las Cárcavas neighborhood, in the Hortaleza district, have begun to mobilize against the construction of four twelve-story towers intended by an investment fund to house some 600 aparthotels, reports the Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Madrid (FRAVM). ).
In a press release sent a few days ago, the neighborhood associations report that the project, located in the western area of ??Valdebebas, is being built on a plot “for tertiary use that until a year ago was property of the City Council” and that had promised ‘new services’ on these lands.”
According to the FRAVM, a neighborhood assembly has been held “to decide what actions to take in the face of this new urban atrocity.”
In its note, the Federation explains that the Stop Torres Cárcavas platform has begun to collect signatures to request the suspension of the project of the Swiss investment fund Stoneweg, which last year acquired land for tertiary use from the City Council between Emma Penella and Camino streets. from Montoro.
The aparthotel towers, the platform says, are being built “in the area of ??the Valdebebas development, northeast of the city, a quiet area inhabited mostly by families with small children.”
According to the FRAVM, when planning for the development of Valdebebas began twenty years ago, the City Council promised the residents of Las Cárcavas that it would finally address their demands and that on its border with the new development it would increase the proportion of facilities to compensate for the deficiencies reported. since yesteryear. That in the Valdebebas Partial Plan, its western area, the Remate de Las Cárcavas, would be a residential complex with low population density and services.
However, he points out that last May construction began, on the only two plots of tertiary use in Valdebebas Oeste, of towers that will triple the height of the neighborhood, will break the municipal promise to respect low density and will not contribute anything of what was promised. to the neighbors.
For the affected residents, says the FRAVM, “the municipal promise has turned out to be a song to the sun, since what will actually be on this tertiary land will be aparthotels in four twelve-story towers, with small apartments for rent, without even any premises commercial for a sector that still lacks basic services.”
