Huge spending vow for schools
Cash secured for vital building projects in Torrevieja
A TOTAL of €22.1 million will be spent on building new schools and improving old buildings in Torrevieja.
The regional government investment plan was announced by mayor Eduardo Dolón.
He noted that €6.8 million has been earmarked for the long-awaited construction of the Amanacer primary school, where pupils are currently taught in prefabricated classrooms.
The project will be put out to tender in the coming weeks and work is due to start in September, according to the regional government.
This will involve demolishing the current structures at the site in the south of the municipality and constructing the new buildings on land to the north of the town centre, off the CV905 dual carriageway, opposite the Sport.in gym.
The centre will have six classrooms for infants and 12 for primary education, with a gymnasium and a dining hall.
A further €6.5 million is budgeted for the new Inmaculada primary school – which will have the same characteristics, along with two classrooms for children aged two – with building set to start at the beginning of next year, noted Sr Dolón.
He stated that the council has signed up to the regional government’s long-running Plan Edificant scheme for education, which will initially bring in €8.8 million to restore and extend buildings in the municipality.
Sr Dolón noted that the cash will come from Valencia and the actions will be carried out under the wing of the town hall.
He said the most important of these initiatives was the ‘complete rehabilitation’ of Las Lagunas secondary school, which will cost some €7 million.
A €750,000 project at IES Torrevigía will involve the construction of new classrooms as well as restoration work.
Additionally, the ‘structure’ of Libertas secondary school buildings will be strengthened and three new classrooms will be built with an investment of €650,000.
Works at the Virgen del Carmen primary school will cost €400,000 and include repairs to the buildings, playground and sports courts.
Sr Dolón met with the region’s director general for school infrastructure, Víctor García to talk about the modernisation of schools in the municipality.
Sr García said that the plan which has been drawn up will give Torrevieja schools that are ‘worthy of the 21st century’.
Additionally, the work that is planned will generate 600 jobs in the construction sector, ‘which is very necessary to help the area recover from the economic downturn caused by the pandemic’.