An established neighbourhood in postal limbo
Benalúa Sur has been open to traffic for five years and is now an established neighbourhood, with hundreds of families living in completed developments. Yet its streets still have no signs, and some new streets and squares have no names at all.
In December 2025 we submitted a formal request to Alicante City Council to resolve this. After receiving no answer, on 23 July we registered a new request addressed to the Statistics Department and the councillors responsible for Traffic and Mobility, Infrastructure and Citizen Participation.
We call for urgent street signage throughout the Benalúa Sur development area. This matters in practice. Without names or signs the neighbourhood is in postal limbo, making addresses harder to find when they should be clearly identifiable.
A problem for safety and everyday life
Missing street signs cause daily problems that directly affect safety and quality of life.
- Ambulance crews, police and firefighters may struggle to locate an emergency when every minute matters.
- Official correspondence, medical appointment letters and home deliveries are delayed, lost or returned because addresses cannot be verified.
- Relatives, friends and other visitors regularly struggle to find people’s homes.
- A new, busy neighbourhood gives the impression of administrative neglect, at odds with a city that wants to care for its neighbourhoods and welcome visitors.
It is untenable that a modern, finished neighbourhood open to traffic for five years has no street-name signs at all. We cannot wait for an ambulance to miss a building entrance in an emergency.
An urgent solution, even a temporary one
We ask the council to install signs on every street immediately. Any outstanding finishing work on particular façades cannot become another excuse. Temporary or permanent signs can go on posts at junctions.
After more than seven months without an answer, we demand swift, concrete action. What is happening in the southern neighbourhoods is beyond words. The very least we can ask is that the streets of Benalúa Sur have names.
Media coverage
- Información reports on an Alicante neighbourhood with unnamed streets
- Alicante Plaza reports on Parque del Mar residents calling out five years without street signs in Benalúa Sur
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