The Motril Town Hall says that it has found the formula to accelerate the bureaucratic process for a large shopping centre, on the scale of Vélez-Malaga’s Centro Comercial Ingenio, which will one day be built on the Cortijo del Conde site. But even so, we’re talking about 2014/2015.
If you are in any doubt were Cortijo del Conde is, it is the large, empty plot of land where the municipal fair is held, along the Puntalón road.
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The cunning plan is to basically put the project up for bidding before the land is actually bought by the developer. That way, once the bid is awarded, the money forwarded would cover the administrative costs, which quite frankly, the Town Hall can’t afford at the moment.
Councillor Nicolás Navarro explained that an option to buy would be included in the bid, so that the bid winner takes on the pledge to build a shopping centre on the said land. The bid winner will have to pay for the necessary studies and reports, needed to permit a change of land-registry category and for the ante-project.
Whoever wins the bid will also be responsible for the building of the site for the municipal fair, which thanks to a referendum, will be placed next to the swimming pools.
Once the town has the new fair ground up and running, the PGOU listing for Cortijo del Conde can be modified to permit the building of the said shopping centre. This publicly owned land has an extension of 100,000 sq/m.
By Town Hall estimates, the paperwork will cost 200,000 euros and the laying down of a permanent fair ground with its infrastructure will cost around one million euros… It goes without saying that Motril doesn’t have that sort of money, so this formula does appear to be the only way forward.
