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Date Published: 26/11/2021

ARCHIVED - Bid to build three skyscrapers in Torrevieja gets environmental green light

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Developer Metrovacesa's project has received a "favourable" environmental report from Torrevieja Council

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Bid to build three skyscrapers in Torrevieja gets environmental green light

A bid to build three skyscrapers on the frontline of Acequión Beach in Torrevieja is a step close to final approval following a "favourable" strategic environmental and territorial report from the Town Hall after six years in the pipeline.

The Alicante-based firm plans to build two 93-metre-high towers of 29 floors for residential use and another multi-storey hotel, 75 metres high – the latter is a municipal requirement when allowing construction at such heights – on a plot of 13,000 square metres.

Torrevieja Council's General Director of Urban Planning, Projects and Infrastructures and Basic Services concluded that "the construction plan does not have significant effects on the environment", but did take into consideration concerns raised by Miguel Ángel Pavón, as representative of Amigos de los Humedales del Sur de Alicante (Friends of South Alicante Wetlands).

The association called on the council to take into account the protection of the Acequión canal, built in 1480 and the oldest in operation in Alicante province.

Specifically, Pavón stressed that "the canal should be considered in the development planning as a landscape resource and as a cultural and historical heritage element".

The canal is protected in Alicante's urban ordinance plan (PGOU), and Metrovacesa has been asked to provide a "study of detail" in relation to the canal and the development which will be made available to the public, along with other relevant documents, prior to final approval.

Elsewhere in the Vega Baja area of Alicante province, new seafront apartment blocks have sparked outrage in Orihuela Costa, where residents have blasted the "ugly monstrosities", arguing the developments are ruining the coastline.

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