The Júcar Hydrographic Confederation has authorised the Town Hall to carry out the urbanisation project works to adapt the municipal plot located behind the Silene Nursery School so that the Regional Ministry can install the provisional modules of the second secondary school until the definitive works are completed.
A few months ago, the Town Council approved the transfer of a municipal plot of more than 30,000m2 located just behind the Silene Infant School in Ifac so that the Regional Ministry can install prefabricated classrooms there for the students of the overcrowded centres and the complete new IES. The Consistory will invest €3,200,000 from its surplus cash for the clearing, urbanisation and adaptation of the land that will house the section.
The urbanisation works will be carried out on two plots of land of around 6,900 metres each, which will house classrooms for an infant and primary school and classrooms for the second secondary school. In addition, access roads with pavements, a parking area and a landscaped green area will be built, occupying a total surface area of 33,600 m2. Drinking water supply and sewage disposal will be provided by the municipal water mains. The authorisation includes the fencing of the plot.
This procedure has been carried out urgently, in fact the CHJ has only taken a few days to grant its authorisation after the presentation of the municipal project. This means that the tendering procedure for the works can begin this week, with a completion period of four months. Once the works have been completed and the classrooms have been installed, the 160 students who started the course in the Casa de Cultura will move to the new facilities.
Parallel to this process, the tendering process for the definitive works of the second Institute continues, with a base budget of 14.899.419,51€. The architects Pablo Peñín Llobell and Miguel San Juan, drew up the basic and execution project for the new institute in October 2023 and the construction project was approved in December 2023. Last July, the Public Procurement Platform announced the tender for the works contract, and in August the only bid submitted was opened, which is currently being studied. The government team believes that the works could be awarded by the end of 2024 and the works executed by the end of 2026.
The mayoress Ana Sala has declared that ‘we meet the demand of the educational community and while the second institute is being built, we offer the Conselleria the space to locate the provisional section, we cannot go faster, we have streamlined all the procedures so that Calp has the necessary educational infrastructure’.