The Generalitat Valenciana (specifically the Department of Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Development), has already issued the Partial Plan's "environmental and strategic statement" promoted by most of the land owners, members of a Grouping of Urbanistic Interest (AIU) that has been processing documentation for years.
After dozens of technical documents were presented to all the public administrations concerned (Central, Autonomous and Local), several ministries, departments and the City Council agree that the proposal can be carried out once all the technical impediments have been cleared and favourable reports have been received.
This last document means, de facto, that the City Council and the developers can now sit down to start the urban development management work, which will result in dozens of plans to design streets, avenues, squares, green areas, shopping areas, educational facilities, public buildings, car parking areas, allocating space for hotels and free and subsidised housing.
The Ensanche Levante Plan, therefore, adjusts to the urban planning in force in Benidorm, and the 575,000 m2 will give way to a modern, functional city, which in all cases complies with national and regional environmental regulations.
The Plan foresees a buildable area of 292,600 m2, of which 123,111 m2 is reserved for hotel use, 29,260 m2 for tertiary commercial use, 98,160 m2 for free housing and 42,069 m2 for subsidised housing (140,000 m2 in total for housing). Green areas will occupy 122.134 m2, which means that Benidorm will have a large green lung in its most densely populated urban area. Roads and parking will cover 163,250 m2.
The Plan is committed to designing public lighting that meets energy efficiency criteria, reducing water consumption, using natural gas and recycling, and promoting the use of renewable energies.
The Environmental Assessment Commission (signatory of the last report) is the competent body to issue the environmental and territorial strategic statement and has given its approval to develop this land.
The report highlights that a large green area will be created to meet Benidorm's current lack of open space reserves, that sustainable mobility will be promoted by interconnecting routes and reducing CO2 emissions, and that a network of cycle lanes will be created on the main roads to link up with the network already in place in the immediate vicinity.