Just days before the municipal elections, approval has been given by the local council to build 2,365 homes on 580,000 square metres of land that surround the Moncayo pine forest.

The Official Gazette of the Province confirms this final approval of modification 15 to the Guardamarenco General Plan, processed by the local government of the PSOE.

The decsion adds to the start, in recent days, of another residential area dedicated to tourist housing: the ZO-9 “El Mirador” sector urbanization works on 685,000  square metres with the capacity to build another 2,000 homes , a few hundred meters from Oliverón, in Campo de Guardamar.

The new plot is delimited to the north by the municipal football field and Loma de les Raboses and extends to the south, on the plot where the Sunday market currently operates, along the edge of the Nacional-332, in front of the Santa Ana industrial estate and up to the cemetery, Mount Moncayo, and the area of the military air-naval installation of the Torre de Los Americanos .

Friends of the Wetlands of the South of Alicante (AHSA) said that their objection to the plan, has been rejected by the Council.

 

Plan Image:

In yellow the location of the Oliverón plan for 2,300 homes. From right to left, the sea, the urban area, the Santa Ana industrial estate, the N-332 and the area approved for urbanisation delimited by the football field to the north, the cemetery to the south and Moncayo to the southwest