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A high-performance surf center with a wave pool and two hotels, next to Taguspark, are part of the Talaíde Detailed Plan, in the municipality of Cascais, which came into effect on Thursday.

Cascais will have a surf center with a wave pool and hotel units next to Taguspark Cascais City Hall

The Detailed Plan for Talaíde, in the parish of São Domingos de Rana, covers an area of 90,400 square meters, for "the installation of a private facility for public use (a wave pool for surfing), complemented by two hotels and support structures", reads the notice published in the Official Gazette.

The plan aims to "enhance the economic and social development and urban regeneration of Talaíde, admittedly one of the most disadvantaged areas of the municipality", through "a project of recognized supra-municipal strategic interest", which "will contribute to improving the quality of life of the local population".

The areas include equipment, commerce and services, with a maximum of four floors and two basements, in 58 thousand m2, a hotel, with a maximum of five floors plus two basements, with 120 rooms and 260 beds, an apartment hotel, on five floors plus three basements, with 100 accommodation units and 200 beds, in addition to a road network and public green areas (5,785 m2).

The planned parking is divided into 232 spaces for light vehicles in the equipment, commerce and services area, 76 spaces for the hotel, and 25 spaces in the apartment hotel, as well as two spaces for heavy goods vehicles and one for heavy passenger vehicles.

The road network includes the road connection to the municipality of Sintra, on the alternative route to Estrada Octávio Pato-Talaíde, which is the responsibility of the municipality of Cascais (Lisbon district), and the plan stipulates that the "use and operation of buildings intended for hotels and apartment hotels may not occur prior to the use and operation of the wave pool for surfing", unless the developer provides a guarantee in favor of the municipality.

In terms of risks and vulnerabilities, the plan addresses the need to prevent and mitigate the "possibility of seismic phenomena, floods and inundations, and contamination of aquifers, ensuring the safety of people and property."

In this sense, measures are stipulated such as "the absence of any obstacles to the normal flow of water", a "protection and maintenance strip for water intakes" and a ban on "research for groundwater intake points at a distance of less than 50 meters from any wastewater infiltration body, with a view to minimizing the contamination of aquifers".

Urban and building operations must adopt "measures that promote bioclimatic development," efficient energy systems in buildings and equipment, installation of photovoltaic panels "on the roofs and walls" of buildings, and green areas with "low-water consumption species" and "control of invasive species."

"This new high-performance surfing center, which includes a wave pool with the most advanced technology, positions Cascais at the forefront of sporting innovation," said the vice-president of Cascais City Council, Nuno Piteira Lopes (PSD), quoted in a statement from the municipality.

The project, the mayor added, "represents a strategic investment that reinforces the municipality's attractiveness, boosts the local economy, and significantly improves quality of life."

The plan's implementation period is five years, and the document was approved by the Cascais Municipal Assembly with favorable votes from PSD, CDS-PP, PS, IL and Chega, and against from PCP, PAN and BE.