The opening of Torrevieja’s new public Nursery and Primary School number sixteen has been postponed, despite plans for pupils to move in after the Christmas holidays. The delay is due to the company contracted by the regional government not yet formally handing over the prefabricated facilities, alongside outstanding municipal works on the site.

The Town Hall is responsible for adapting the plot, including basic services and fencing, and must also tender a separate contract for classroom furniture. Education councillor Ricardo Recuero has said the most likely opening date will be in around a month and a half, placing the start of activity towards the end of February.

The school has been built in the Mar Azul area in the south of Torrevieja and is designed to accommodate up to six hundred and fifty pupils. Around three hundred and fifty places are expected to be filled immediately once it opens, with children transferred from other nearby prefabricated schools that are already operating at capacity.