La Hoya - Environmental Permits Approved For Some Commercial Elements

[Carl]

Council procedural failing sees the Bauhaus store more than a year behind schedule, and one of the two supermarkets for the site has been revealed as Consum. Chances of the other supermarket being an Aldi or Lidl's?

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Torrevieja City Council gives license for a Bauhaus chain store and two supermarkets in La Hoya

The DIY company had to repeat the entire authorization procedure after an appeal by its competitor Leroy Merlin.

The Torrevieja City Council has approved the environmental permit for the construction of a Bauhaus DIY store in the La Hoya urban development area of ​​Torrevieja. It has also authorized applications to build two supermarkets, one of them belonging to the distributor Consum.

All these shops will be located, together with others that are currently in the process of being processed, in the strip of one hundred thousand square meters of tertiary use available in the macro-urbanization of more than 7,000 homes that is being built in La Hoya. They will be located parallel to the CV-905 road, between San Luis and Jardín del Mar-Doña Inés.

The multinational Bauhaus adds a delay of more than a year in the validation of the project and start of the works because another company in the sector, Leroy Merlin, which has two stores in Orihuela Costa, appealed the first license granted by the City Council in August last year and managed to revoke it in court so that the entire regulated procedure could be restarted.

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The appeal against the municipal license came to court because Leroy Merlin understood that the mandatory step of public exhibition of the project had been avoided. The court agreed with him and the authorization was revoked until the time of the processing of that exhibition. Finally, Bauhaus has obtained the license and can begin the works.

The first major works license was obtained by Bauhaus from the Torrevieja City Council in August 2024 for the construction of one of its shopping centers with a buildable area of 18,000 square meters on a plot of 40,000 square meters in sector 20 -La Hoya, now in the process of urbanization. This is the plot located between the new José Carreras Avenue and the roundabout access to the sector, next to the torrential water lamination pond. In the last episode of rain last October, the water overflowed into what will be the parking area attached to that establishment.

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The developer of the sector, which includes up to 7,400 homes in addition to this tertiary area, in coordination with the City Council, plans to bring forward the works to connect the pond with evacuation collectors in Las Torretas.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, even met with company executive Bart Ginneberge, and members of his team in September 2024, before the license had to be revoked to repeat the procedure, and released an image of the meeting at City Hall.

At that meeting, the mayor "thanked Torrevieja for having been chosen for the opening of one of its establishments", which "will create numerous direct and indirect jobs".

First in Alicante

The German company is a benchmark and specialist in products for the home, hardware, DIY, workshop and garden. Ithas 250 stores and has a presence in about twenty countries, almost all of them in the European Union as well as Turkey and Iceland, with a total workforce of 17,000 people. Of these, 12 centers are located in Spain. The one in Torrevieja will be the firm's first in the province of Alicante.

Environmental Licensing

Since the filing of this appeal, the information on the public exhibition of certain applications for entity environmental licenses and activity licenses has been published in the electronic headquarters, which has revealed that the City Council had been failing to comply with this administrative requirement for certain authorizations for years.

Thus, the City Council has now granted, after a public exhibition that had not been carried out before, the license to a gas station also located next to the CV-905 and José Lorca García street that has been built and in operation for almost three years.

[Bee]

It seems to be the order of the day to object and then it gets overturned. Then it's back to square one and at the end of it all the project/development goes ahead anyway. Same with the town bus contract.

Bee

[Carl]

It seems to be the order of the day to object and then it gets overturned. Then it's back to square one and at the end of it all the project/development goes ahead anyway. Same with the town bus contract.

Bee

The end result would probably never have been any different, Bauhaus would have been granted the permit, but Leroy Merlin were only in a position to appeal because the council never followed procedure. Not really a good look for a council when a business can highlight its own procedural failing.

I doubt even Leroy Merlin ever thought that Bauhaus would be refused a permit, but from a business perspective Leroy Merlin have managed to gain a year or more of trading without competition from Bauhaus in the area.