MARBELLA has launched a massive eastward expansion with the processing of three major developments set to bring more than 6,400 homes and luxury hotel complexes.
The local governing board has approved the zoning of nearly 3 sq km of land across La Vibora, La Vizcaina, and the surrounding areas of Alicate, La Paz and Arroyo Sequillo.
The green light comes directly alongside the final approval of the town hall’s new General Municipal Planning Plan, known as the PGOM, which replaces the outdated 1986 blueprint.
Developers behind the three macro-projects now have two years to draw up and submit detailed partial plans setting out the exact layout of the plots.
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The largest scheme sits in Alicate and Arroyo Sequillo, where Golf Reserva de Marbella, a firm owned by the Peñarroya Group, plans up to 2,759 homes north of the A-7 motorway.
That blueprint includes 1,462 subsidised social housing units, although the promoter can reduce total density to 1,740 properties to trigger a legal loophole exempting it from building social homes.
The complex also features a 50,000-square-metre five-star luxury hotel linked to ‘branded residences’, where private property owners receive direct hospitality services from the resort.
Over in La Vibora, developer Interpromo 2006 plans to build 2,776 homes, including 1,333 subsidised properties, alongside a 13,000-square-metre commercial zone.
Meanwhile, Marbella-based firm Alfil Patrimonial Socimi will erect between 685 and 872 homes in La Vizcaina, an undeveloped plot south of the AP-7 motorway next to Cabopino golf course.
That scheme reserves land for educational facilities and also leaves the door open to luxury hotel use to complement the residential housing.
Separately, the municipality has unblocked a northern project near the La Cañada shopping centre, clearing the way for 156 detached villas after more than three decades of paralysis.
That northern site requires an €8 million investment in earthworks, retaining walls and drainage due to the steep slope beside the protected Trapiche del Prado sugar mill.
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