Calpe Town Council has initiated the procedures to declare the expiry of the licence granted in December 2017 to the company Sol de Calpee S.L. for the construction of a hotel consisting of two 35-storey towers on a plot located on Avenida Juan Carlos I, near Les Salines. The council has already notified the company that the licence has been revoked and a period of 15 days is now open to present allegations.
The expiry of the licence is an administrative procedure that takes place once the period for the execution of the licence has elapsed without the works having been started. As a consequence of the approval of the D14 modification of the General Urban Development Plan of Calpe, in recent years the Town Council has already decreed the expiry of licences for other urban development projects, as their execution has not begun and the applicable urban development regulations have changed. This is to avoid that the so-called "licences in the pipeline" can continue forever regardless of changes in regulations.
On the other hand, the licence granted for the execution of this project is based on a regulation that is no longer in force since the aforementioned modification D14 has been approved, and therefore, as it has not been executed within the required period, it must expire in order to avoid non-compliance with the new approved urban planning parameters. Thus, if a new licence is applied for on that plot, the building will have to comply with the new current regulations and would not be able to maintain the heights foreseen in the initial project.