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Electricity towers could disappear from several areas of Boadilla
Several of Boadilla del Monte’s best-known housing developments could leave behind the high-voltage towers and lines that have crossed their landscape for decades. The City Council has signed an agreement with Red Eléctrica to study whether burying the cables in six residential areas of the municipality is feasible.
The analysis will affect Las Lomas, Bonanza, Montepríncipe, Pino Centinela, Parque Boadilla and Viñas Viejas. Thousands of residents live there alongside these infrastructures, visible from homes, gardens and streets, and have been calling for a solution to reduce their impact for years.
The study will last nine months and cost 39,609.01 euros, paid for by the Ayuntamiento. During that period, possible routes, technical difficulties and implementation costs will be reviewed before deciding whether the project can move on to the construction phase.
Signing the agreement does not yet mean that the undergrounding has been approved. If the conclusions are favourable, the Consistorio and Red Eléctrica will have to reach a new agreement determining how the intervention will be financed and within what timeframes it could be carried out.
Boadilla has a recent precedent. In 2023, the undergrounding work and dismantling of towers in Valenoso and Olivar de Mirabal were completed, an operation that exceeded 12 million euros and made it possible to free a significant part of the residential area from power lines.
The new project, however, presents several complex points. Nearly 1,000 metres of cabling crossing Parque Boadilla and the Arroyo Calabozo area are considered difficult to dismantle for the time being, so they could be left out of a future intervention.
The agreement also includes the creation of a monitoring committee between the Ayuntamiento and Red Eléctrica. That body will have to coordinate the work, review the study's progress and resolve problems that arise during the search for alternatives.
The disappearance of the towers would change the appearance of streets and plots, but it would also make it possible to recover spaces constrained by the electrical route. The key will lie in the final cost and the technical solution chosen for work that residents have been waiting for for years.