The provision of basic city services for what will be Torrevieja’s primary residential sector in the future years, with a projected 7,400 dwellings, is off to a rough start. The first 120 people who live in the La Hoya de Torrevieja mega-development do not have regular rubbish pickup. The people who live there have publicly complained about the situation.
The Department of Urban Cleaning said that the winning business, Acciona, has had the contract change that will make this daily collection legal for two weeks now. The change will soon be approved so that the service may start.
The La Hoya area is one of the places that will be added to the service according to the terms and conditions of the present contract, which has been in existence since the summer of 2022. So, from an administrative point of view, the adjustment doesn’t add any complexity or administrative work. It doesn’t cost the City Council a lot of money either, since they pay 25 million euros a year for the contract (including VAT).
Small amount
The same sources say that only 120 residences have been given a first occupancy licence and that most of them are empty, therefore the amount of rubbish produced per day is not very high.
The same sources said that there are only two container islands in the residential area. So far, the waste has mostly come from opening and cleaning the homes and the headquarters of a major real estate developer, which is part of the urban development joint venture.
Given by the developer
The person who made the project had to pay for the containers themselves, and they met all of the deadlines and supplied all of the ones needed for phase 1 of the now-finished development, including those for organic garbage. Residents of the whole municipality will be the first to use these if they are put in later. Right now, a small number of restaurants and public school cafeterias collect organic trash with the help of a subsidy.
The City Council still hasn’t taken over the upkeep of green spaces, even though the first phase, which comprised a lot of streets, avenues, and parking lots where native plants were to be planted, was finished before the summer. These trees aren’t being taken care of right now, even though the contract was only for six months and the area was supposed to be added to the service, like street cleaning and rubbish collection. The technical staff haven’t yet figured out how much it will cost.
1,000,000
The City Council took over the first phase of the La Hoya plan at the beginning of last August. The cost of keeping basic services running at this time is more than one million euros: €1,054,000, according to the technicians’ calculations when they approved the first phase. Street cleaning, rubbish collection, and transit will be the city’s biggest expenses, costing €773,557 a year. But this is a growing cost, and the developer is also in charge of getting the containers and putting them in place. They already do this when they need to.
The expected yearly cost of maintaining the public lighting systems, which are already turned on every day because the roads are busy and in use, is €56,138 (including VAT). The cost of providing electricity will be €51,535. On the other hand, road repair work costs an extra €154,928. The municipality has been providing all of these services since August 2025, even though they don’t depend on how many people live there or how the development plan is being built. In reality, cars can see a large, lit-up, and urbanised region on the CV-905 that used to have houses but now doesn’t.
Author: Derek Appleton
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