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Date Published: 01/10/2024

Development of 1,000 tourist homes gets the go-ahead in Costa Blanca south

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The project will house 2,700 new residents in the Lo Monte area of Pilar de la Horadada

Development of 1,000 tourist homes gets the go-ahead in Costa Blanca south

While towns up and down the Costa Blanca are putting a halt to the granting of new tourist apartments due to an overly-saturated market, the council in Pilar de la Horadada has just given the green light to the reclassification of 292,881 square metres of unused land in Lo Monte Playa, which will be turned into 1,086 holiday homes.

Located between the N-332 park road, Federico García Lorca Avenue in Mil Palmeras, Levante Avenue to the south and the coast, the huge site would have the capacity to house around 2,700 new residents, in addition to the 22,000-strong population already registered in the popular town.

According to the developer Santamar de la Vega, the land “has not been used for agricultural activities in the last 30 years, and is simply wasteland with no agricultural value whatsoever.”

Given that the site is nestled in between two other well-established housing estates, the builders believe leaving the land undeveloped has caused the area to become “degraded”.

The investment in the urbanisation works to be carried out by Santamar, which owns 98% of the land, is estimated at 21.7 million euros. The annual outlay for the municipal coffers to cover the basic services of lighting, cleaning and maintenance of green areas is around 410,000 euros. Meanwhile, the income for the City Council from IBI is estimated at around 578,000 euros per year, in addition to the construction tax and initial fees for licences.

This is the third time since 2015 that the developers have sought permission to build in Pilar de la Horadada, and they’ve finally been approved. The Orihuela-based company also has a proposal in the works for 2,000 properties in San Miguel de Salinas, and has other projects in Orihuela and Torrevieja to develop commercial areas, as well as promoting the Los Náufragos skyscrapers in the latter.

The plans, naturally, are facing some opposition, with the ‘Friends of the Sierra Escalona’ group arguing that more tourist accommodation is scarcely needed on the “already over-urbanised and damaged coastal strip of the Vega Baja”.

Furthermore, they believe the land could be put to better use by creating a natural green corridor between the protected landscape and future natural park of Sierra Escalona and the Mar Menor.

In any case, it seems like these objections have fallen on deaf ears and all that remains is for the Valencian government to rubber stamp the plan.

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Image: Alimurcia via Wikimedia Commons/ASE

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