The Town Council has set up a multidisciplinary technical and political working committee to study the housing situation in Calpe, the aim is to analyse the different solutions within the municipal framework of competence, to determine solutions and actions aimed at achieving the objective of affordable and decent housing.
Between 2023 and so far in 2024 more than 1000 new tourist homes have been added to the tourist housing stock of the municipality, currently there is a total of 5,365 tourist homes in Calpe. In other words, one fifth of these properties have been added in the last 16 months.
According to the INE, there are a total of 26.201 dwellings in Calpe, of which 9.839 are destined to be the main residence. Therefore, of the total number of dwellings in Calpe, approximately one fifth are tourist dwellings, while, in relation to those that are not primary residences, one third are classified as tourist dwellings. All of these dwellings are distributed over all of the urban residential land in the municipality of Calpe, given that residential use is compatible with tertiary hotel use.
It is therefore urgent to study and regulate the implantation of new tourist dwellings, taking into account the influence that their proliferation has on the rest of the housing solutions. The aim is to promote a regulation of the sector that provides legal security but also regulates tourist accommodation and avoids illegal activities.
To this end, the working commission will study a modification of the uses permitted by the PGOU in those areas where it is decided to limit the implantation of more tourist housing. The situation of tourist dwellings will also have to be related to the other types of housing - habitual residence in property ownership or rental, free rental housing or public housing, public housing, public housing, etc. -.