“"The municipal and administration's will is to co-finance it because the definitive project contemplates a high-capacity road with a third lane towards Torrevieja, very different from what was initially proposed."
Torrevieja Hospital Expansion Linked to Urban Plan for 1,367 Homes
The initial approval of a General Plan modification for a new residential sector is key to land transfer for hospital expansion and the duplication of the CV-95 road.
By Neus Mollà i Roca
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Aerial image of an urban development with residential buildings and a road under construction, in a Mediterranean landscape.
The Torrevieja City Council will debate this Monday the initial approval of a modification to the General Urban Planning Plan, which conditions the transfer of land for the expansion of Torrevieja Hospital on the construction of 1,367 homes and the duplication of the CV-95 road.
The plenary session of the Torrevieja City Council is scheduled to initially approve a specific modification of the General Urban Planning Plan. This measure seeks to greenlight the urban plan for Sector 29 «La Ceñuela», which foresees the construction of 1,367 homes and the arrival of 3,387 new inhabitants. The definitive approval of this plan is fundamental, as only then will the municipality receive 11,492 square meters of equipment land, which it can transfer to the Generalitat for the expansion of Torrevieja Hospital.
The same urban modification indicates that the developer will be responsible for financing and constructing the duplication of approximately 800 linear meters of the CV-95 road, between the N-332 and Los Balcones. The project for this work has been drafted by the Generalitat Valenciana. A municipal spokesperson clarified that the administration's intention is to co-finance it, as the definitive project contemplates a high-capacity road with a third lane towards Torrevieja, very different from what was initially proposed.
The procedure to be voted on in the plenary session is for initial approval. The process requires a subsequent public consultation period, which will be subject to allegations, and a definitive approval that depends on the Generalitat itself. Therefore, the effective transfer of the land and the construction of the road duplication are subject to an uncertain timeframe, which could be six months, one year, or two.
A binding report from the Generalitat's Territorial Planning Service from 2023, ratified by the general directorate of Urban Planning, Landscape and Environmental Assessment a year later, warns that the growth forecast in this plan fails to meet the thresholds of the Valencian Community Growth Strategy (ETCV). Torrevieja has 1.7 million square meters pending development in the La Hoya sector, when the legal limit for the city was already set at just over 700,000 square meters.



