The Town Hall is studying a proposal to build a car park beneath the Green Corridor linking Puerto de la Duquesa with the Castillo. Municipal technical staff must now analyse the initiative before it can go out to administrative concession.
Manilva Town Hall has received a proposal to build an underground car park of more than 600 spaces in the area of the Green Corridor linking Puerto de la Duquesa with the Castillo, a project intended to address the lack of parking affecting this part of the municipality.
The head of Urban Planning, Juan Carlos Morejón, has said that the proposal was submitted by a local engineering firm and is currently being studied by municipal technical staff.
According to the councillor, the aim is for the car park to be built beneath the existing Green Corridor, so that the surface can keep its status as a green area and continue to serve as a link between the port and the Castillo de la Duquesa.
“We wanted the whole of that green corridor, that green lung we have in the area, to be kept on top”, Morejón said.
More than 600 spaces underground
The proposal includes more than 600 parking spaces, a capacity which, if it goes ahead, would significantly increase the parking available in one of the areas of the municipality under the greatest parking pressure.
The Town Hall expects the technical study to be finished in the coming weeks. Once the viability of the proposal has been analysed and the relevant conditions set, the aim would be to put the land out to administrative concession for a period of between 40 and 50 years, according to the head of Urban Planning.
For the moment, however, no concession has yet been awarded and no works have been approved, as the project must first pass the analysis of the municipal technical services.
Parking and housing among Urban Planning priorities
Morejón has named the lack of parking and access to housing among the main problems he aims to tackle since taking over the Urban Planning department around a year and a half ago.
In the case of the La Duquesa car park, the proposed approach is precisely a long-term administrative concession, which would allow the infrastructure to be developed through private investment while the land remains publicly owned.
The next step will therefore be to learn the conclusions of the study being carried out by municipal technical staff. That analysis will determine whether the proposal can move forward to the concession procedure and under what conditions.
