At yesterday's plenary session, the Calpe City Council approved the implementation of the management of Urban Verification Collaborative Entities (ECUV) to expedite the procedures for granting building permits and administrative procedures.
The Councilor for Territory, Juan Manuel del Pino, said at the plenary session that "the municipal Department of Territory is overwhelmed, not only in our municipality, and this leads to delays. With the incorporation of ECUV certifications, the work will accelerate, we will be able to be more agile and shorten times. With this measure, we are not doing anything irregular, nor outsourcing a service, we are just speeding things up."
Thanks to the ECUV, project promoters will be able to count on the support of specialized entities to ensure that all required documentation complies with current urban planning and technical regulations. The application must be accompanied by the project and the certificate of conformity from an Administration Collaborating Entity registered in the Registry of Collaborating Entities for Verification and Control of urban planning actions of the Generalitat Valenciana (ECUV). In this way, the City Council will be able to grant licenses more quickly, without jeopardizing legal security or the quality of technical controls.
The spokesperson for Defendamos Calpe, Paco Quiles, expressed opposition to the measure and said that "a municipal competence is being outsourced to facilitate faster construction." Miguel Crespo, spokesperson for the Popular group, who abstained from the vote, emphasized that “The ECUVs will speed up management, but what they don’t tell us is how they are going to solve the management of permits for construction work. The current situation is chaotic and unbearable; we urge them to resolve the permit timelines in Calpe.”