Ecologistas en Acción presents allegations to a rural accommodation that is next to Guadalete River.

For the environmentalist part of the project should be placed outside the visual basin of special protection. That is why they are asking for the change of the projects location presented so then they could proceed to the Public Declaration of Interests.

This association has presented allegations to the Intervention Project processed by GENUINO UBRIQUE, S.L. for the Public Declaration of Interests of the Building of Rural Accommodation in the estate in non-urban area, located in the Llanos de la Huerta (Polígono 90, plot 49), more specifically in the Llano de los Zapateros, from the municipality of Arcos de la Frontera, ahead the river Guadalete, in a stream bed that is located outside the adjustment an integration area that is taking place in the river. According to the developer, the project would have a two-storey hotel, a swimming pool, simulating a pond, horse boxes and exercise ring, vegetable garden with autochthonous grove, parking, a sewage treatment plant…

There is a part of the project (parking, vegetable garden…), which is located inside the visual socket, so it should be modified its location (or eliminated) and adapted completely to the rules. The area of “Llanos de las Huertas” is classified as non-urban area of special protection because of its relevant landscape inside the General Plan of Urban Order (GPUO) of Arcos de la Frontera. Thus, a part of the project should be corrected to prevent its develop inside the main landscape easily seen from the viewpoints of Arcos de la Frontera, Plaza de la Cabildo and Abades, which make the most of the natural high of the Peña Nueva de Arcos de la Frontera, to facilitate the observation of the meanders of the river Guadalete, and the associated fertile lowlands.

The hotel should have the environmental impact evaluation, according to the Law 7/2007, 9th July, of Gestión Integrada de la Calidad Ambiental stipulate in its appendix I the relation of interventions that have to be submitted to the environmental precaution and control. In this relation are the “sport complex and permanent camps for tents or caravans and hotels complex, in non-urban area”, that must be submitted to the Unified Environmental Authorization, with the possibility of submitting it to shorten procedure.

There is another part of the project inside the police area of the Hydraulic Public Control, flood area, they should present a positive report from the Andalusian Water Agency, to certify that certain freshets of the Guadalete River do not flood the developed area or affect people.

There are river stretches from the Guadalete near to this area that are part of Natura 2000 being declared as a Site of Community Importance (SCI) for the conservation status of the existing natural habitat for which they should not being affected.

That is why, Ecologistas en Acción ask for a location change or elimination of a part of the project presented in the visual basin, for the project to not affect the livestock routes, to have a positive report of the Andalusian Water Agency and a favourable environmental impact evaluations of the Environmental Ministry, so then can proceed to the Public Declaration of Interests of the Building of Rural Accommodation in the estate in non-urban area, located in the Llanos de la Huerta (Polígono 90, plot 49) of the municipality Arcos de la Frontera, developed by GENUINO UBRIQUE, S.L.