Monday, October 31, 2005
From Valencia Life 29.10.05
A DAMAGING REPORT
A recent report by the holding group for all the tourist companies in Spain has found that the massive building programme that is currently being undertaken in the Valencian Community, under which thousands of new homes are created, is completely unsustainable, both from an economic and an environmental point of view. The report adds that the average foreign tourist on the Costa Blanca, in an hotel, or in a camping site or legally renting a flat spends on average 114 Euros a day - 123% more than aResidential tourist. The report also adds that the Mediterranean coast of Spain after 40 years of almost uncontrolled expansion and building is heading straight for the same sort of crisis that hit France and Italy in the 60s and 70s. The report found that the Valencian Community headed the autonomies with the most apartments that were rented without undergoing the right legal procedures. It estimated that 87% of the apartments that are rented are not under the control or supervision of the Valencian Government that appears powerless to do anything about the situation that has been growing since the 90s. In another part of its findings, the report revealed that there were 50 municipalities that had building plans that were close to or above the largest cities in Spain, and added: "The financial stability of the various Town Halls should be established in another way rather than to be based on a building programme and the rates these new buildings will becharged."
Meanwhile, at a well-attended Town Hall meeting in Calpe yesterday, Mayor Javier Morato explained that the creation of 2,200 dwellings around the Salt Flats in buildings 50 metres high would not affect the perimeter around the Flats. However, the words of the mayor, who was accompanied by Municipal Architect Juan Antonio Revert did not convince either the Socialists or the Calpe Environmental collective ACEC, who issued a statement to the effect that the protection offered to the Flats by the Town Hall was not a guarantee that something could not happen tomorrow, and called for the Salt Flats to be named as a Natural Park
A DAMAGING REPORT
A recent report by the holding group for all the tourist companies in Spain has found that the massive building programme that is currently being undertaken in the Valencian Community, under which thousands of new homes are created, is completely unsustainable, both from an economic and an environmental point of view. The report adds that the average foreign tourist on the Costa Blanca, in an hotel, or in a camping site or legally renting a flat spends on average 114 Euros a day - 123% more than aResidential tourist. The report also adds that the Mediterranean coast of Spain after 40 years of almost uncontrolled expansion and building is heading straight for the same sort of crisis that hit France and Italy in the 60s and 70s. The report found that the Valencian Community headed the autonomies with the most apartments that were rented without undergoing the right legal procedures. It estimated that 87% of the apartments that are rented are not under the control or supervision of the Valencian Government that appears powerless to do anything about the situation that has been growing since the 90s. In another part of its findings, the report revealed that there were 50 municipalities that had building plans that were close to or above the largest cities in Spain, and added: "The financial stability of the various Town Halls should be established in another way rather than to be based on a building programme and the rates these new buildings will becharged."
Meanwhile, at a well-attended Town Hall meeting in Calpe yesterday, Mayor Javier Morato explained that the creation of 2,200 dwellings around the Salt Flats in buildings 50 metres high would not affect the perimeter around the Flats. However, the words of the mayor, who was accompanied by Municipal Architect Juan Antonio Revert did not convince either the Socialists or the Calpe Environmental collective ACEC, who issued a statement to the effect that the protection offered to the Flats by the Town Hall was not a guarantee that something could not happen tomorrow, and called for the Salt Flats to be named as a Natural Park
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