Court suspends 22-year plan for new development on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A court in Alicante has agreed to a precautionary measure to stop the resurrection of old plans to build an urbanization in Lliber.

The municipality’s left-wing Compromis party has requested an order to suspend the building permit and stop the works, which currently consist of completing the connection of a water collector in the Muntanya Llarga area.

He describes the revival of the 22-year plans as an “aberration” that could see the area’s population increase by more than a third.

The spokesman for Compromis in the Provincial Council of Alicante, Gerard Fullana, has said: “We are going to fight to defend our places from speculators because we do not want to go back to the old days that made the Marina Alta one of the areas with the lowest income in the Valencian Community”.

Lliber’s Urban Planning Plan (PAI) dates back to 2001 and provides for the construction of a 488-home development on the slope of Muntanya Llarga of 406,000 m2 that borders the Serra de Ferrer and Bernia, both protected landscape areas.

Compromis argues that the old PAI simply does not equate to a different era.

He says that any work on the water main would not pass modern environmental criteria compared to the days of the ‘real estate boom’,

The party believes that the entire Muntanya Llarga PAI has to be looked at differently and claims that the water supply for all municipalities in the Valle del Pop would be in jeopardy as well as having a negative impact on the environment and local heritage.

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