The Calpe City Council’s plenary session took a big step this February to create a service area at the entrance of the municipality, which has been dubbed the Marina de Ifach business and services park and which will cost 7.6 million euros.
The project for this business park was one of the great electoral promises of the current mayor, Ana Sala, as it aspires to become a space that will house service companies, not so typical industries, and which will generate jobs all year round in a municipality that lives mainly from the tourist sector and the large hotels, now closed for the most part due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
For this reason, perhaps, this step taken by the City Council, by provisionally approving the revised Plan Parcial that will generate this land, takes on even more relevance. It is the latest version of an urban planning project on which the municipal technicians have been working since at least the last legislature, solving the deficiencies detected by the Consell or the central government, as it is an area of 197,000 square metres located parallel to the N-332 and the Pou Roig ravine.
The documentation is published on the website of the Consellería de Política Territorial (Department of Territorial Policy) and states that a total of 92,817 square metres will be used for industrial land. From this, ten blocks will be created with surfaces ranging from 35,188 square metres, the largest, to 1,925 square metres, the smallest. Among them, there will be blocks with 2,000 square metres, 7,000, 8,000 or 12,000 square metres. There are for all tastes.
Likewise, another 59,403 square metres will be destined to the urban development sector’s streets and another 22,430 to green areas. In addition, the City Council has had to reserve 22,000 square metres of land for a future extension of the N-332, which borders the urbanisation.
In order to develop the area, the City Council chaired by Ana Sala, of the Partido Popular, with the support of C’s will have to face a great expense, as it means an outlay of 7.60 million euros, and another million euros for the concept of “other estimated urbanisation costs”, which includes, for example, 400,000 euros in compensation.
