Green light for 400 new niches in the San José cemetery

The San José and Santa Adela municipal cemetery will have 400 more niches. The Executive Committee of the Municipal Urban Planning Department has granted the licence to build a new module on a plot reserved for future expansions, next to blocks built in earlier phases. The licence has been granted to ASV Funeser S.L., the company that manages the municipal cemetery, funeral parlour and crematorium service. The firm will carry out the work under the Investment Plan of the concession contract. The execution period is four months and the work must begin no later than two months after the agreement is notified, with the possibility of requesting an extension according to the terms of the licence. The module will have five levels, about 36.65 metres long and 5.20 wide, and will be built with in-situ concrete, with ventilation and drainage. It will keep the same typology as the latest expansions of the cemetery.

The action does not stop at the niches. The project includes adapting and urbanising the space around them, with new accessible routes and adapted slopes to make it easier for visitors to move through that area. The councillor for Public Works, Maintenance, Accessibility and Blue Economy, Sacramento Sánchez, says that the investment will «guarantee the availability of burial units in the city's main cemetery» and meet the concession's investment commitments. According to Sánchez, the project «is not limited to the construction of 400 new niches» and also includes adapting the surroundings and creating accessible routes. The expansion is in addition to other actions in the five municipal cemeteries. Among those announced in 2023 were 180 columbaria and the demolition of eight deteriorated niche blocks in San José, 32 niches in La Cañada, the paving of Cuevas de los Medinas and 64 niches and 50 columbaria in Cabo de Gata, with a joint investment of more than 230,000 euros.