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Benitatxell City Council and the Department of Housing begin their collaboration to rehabilitate the Capelletes building

August 02 from 2020 - 23: 28

Last Friday, the government team of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell received the visit of the second vice president of the Consell and Minister of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture, Rubén Martínez Dalmau, and the secretary
Bioclimatic Architecture and Energy Sustainability, Laura Soto.

The visit was aimed at the official presentation of the Capelletes building rehabilitation project, which thanks to the program of the Department of Housing 'Reconstruïm Pobles' It will have financing of 500.000 euros to be converted into municipal offices. The ground floor will be used for a new tourist office, and the upper floors to administrative departments and multifunctional rooms.

The mayor thanked the vice president and the regional secretary for this help. "It is very important for us that you give us a hand, since the town accumulates a very large deficit at the level of infrastructure", He said.

For his part, Martínez Dalmau has highlighted his commitment to the Marina Alta region and, in this case, to Benitatxell, the municipality with which he has established "The beginning of a collaboration that will last a long time."

The importance of this project, as highlighted by the Councilor for Urban Planning, Jorge Pascual, not only lies in providing more space to the town hall, but also to improve the image of the main entrance to the municipality on the road to Xàbia, since an unfinished building with a great visual impact will be renovated.

In this sense, Laura Soto has indicated that this project complies with one of the main premises of the Department of Housing, which is to take advantage of the 'skeletons' (housing structures unfinished by the bursting of the housing bubble and the crisis) to provide them with other uses and build in a sustainable way.

Pact for the promotion of social housing

The visit of the Vice President of the Generalitat has also served to sign a protocol between the representative of the Consell and the City Council of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell that will allow the consistory to have a right of first refusal to acquire homes for social use and prevent end up in the hands of vulture funds.

Benitatxell is the second municipality in the Community to sign this pact after Aspe.

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