At the beginning of last March, the Junta de Andalucía published a decree-law with urgent measures called to encourage the promotion of public housing in the region as a whole. The objective of this regulation was none other than to detect lands … empty and unused in towns with more than 100,000 inhabitants to facilitate their urban planning treatment under more advantageous conditions which would allow them to be placed on the market. On the horizon was the idea of loading around 20,000 affordable rental apartments which offered alternatives to young families to facilitate their access to the real estate market, thus putting an end to the negative trend of a market affected by the lack of supply in the face of high demand and the increase in prices that this caused.
On the map designed by technicians from the Ministry of Development In total, 62 plots of land were located in the capital Seville. who meet all the conditions required by the decree and who, where applicable, could benefit from it. Which does not mean that they will opt for this path, since There are some that are privately owned whose owners do not seem interested in converting their land to OPV. affordable rents, either because they have another objective, or because their project is based on free rent housing with a sale price which would be much higher than in the case of officially protected housing. However, and in the event that all the plots ultimately fall within the new framework of this regulation, Seville would have the potential to accommodate just over 7,400 new social housing units as part of an affordable rental scheme over a not too long time horizon.
The plots detected are classified into three types, depending on the different uses assigned to them in the General Urban Plan (PGOU) of Seville. Most of them are residential type. In other words, they wouldn’t need new urban development to be able to start building these houses there. It is a group made up of around thirty plots of land, almost all of which are public property.which could accommodate approximately 4,345 VPOs for affordable rental. The majority of them (19) currently belong to the Seville City Council or some of its municipal companies, while a dozen of them belong to the Andalusian Housing and Rehabilitation Agency (AVRA) and are therefore under the direct responsibility of the Andalusian government. The figure is supplemented by private land on plot RBL 2.2. de Cruzcampo, with just over 3,500 square meters of roof space and approximately 41 housing units.
Also In Cruzcampo there are two plots owned by the municipality, RMA 1 and RMA 5.which total some 76,000 square meters of land and a prospect of 762 housing units. Five more of them are located in the region of Torreblanca West and Eastwith 1,225 housing units, while four are in Palmas Altas South (329 OPV) and three in Hacienda El Rosarior (726). They close the land of the City Hall or its participating entities that could benefit from this decree of the Junta de Andalucía some plots in Santa Bárbarawith 56,000 square meters of land, and two others at Hacienda Santa Bárbarawith the possibility of building around a hundred apartments under an affordable rent regime. The government of José Luis Sanz already informed the General Secretariat of Housing of their existence last June through land included in the municipal land planeven if they still have to face the final processing for its execution.
The owners of some plots have expressed their interest in benefiting from the decree of the Junta de Andalucía and urban planning, they have already started their treatment.
The rest of the plots belong directly to AVRA. Four of them are located in the northern area of the city’s old townvery close to the Alameda de Hércules, and has approximately 300 to 700 square meters of land. More precisely, they are located in the González Cuadrado, Sagunto, Divina Enfermera and Almirante Espinosa streets. There are five others in the surroundings of Torreblanca, which thus becomes one of the areas with the greatest possibility of urban development for the realization of these officially protected housing. The list is completed by a plot of land on Pruna Street and another on the composer Pedro Morales.
The advantages of the decree
The decree of the Junta de Andalucía opens the door to a series of urban improvements that can benefit the developers who take advantage of them. Thanks to this, they can request a change of use or an increase in the constructability of the surfaces concerned. The first case would concern, for example, plots which currently benefit from a tertiary soil classification. In this case, six have been detected, five of which are already being processed thanks to the authorization they received from the plenary session of the Seville City Council during its ordinary session on July 17. two provided by Metrovacesa in Palmas Altas and two others belonging to Urbanarte Sevilla and located rue Hélices 17 and 19, with an area of 450 square meters each. There is a fifth, Cruzcampo’s ST-1Amenabar property, 70% of which would be used for housing and the rest would retain its original purpose. The last one is located at number 24 of Emilio Lemos (Sevilla Este) and its owner is AVRAalthough there are no pending cases concerning her.
By entering the field of those for residential use, the Town Planning Department already announced last summer that the owners of the land on Santa María de Robledo Street, 2 They wanted to take advantage of the decree, taking advantage of the 1,819 square meters of land in this space for the construction of a block of 64 VPOs spread over five floors, with between two and four more in the basement for parking and storage rooms. This is the only one of the 25 included in this chapter that is currently being processed.. Others would have the option to do so, but it seems unlikely at the moment. At least, knowing that its owners (both public and private) showed no interest in doing so during the first call that the Seville City Council launched a few months ago to send a list of interested parties to the Development. Here, we also find them land like that of Chapina which has just been redistributed and which the ABU Group will purchase to create rent-free housing. There are also several soils of Pino Montano, San Jerónimo, Polígono Aeropuerto or Palmeteamong others. If all were assessed according to the decree, they would have a capacity of approximately 2,500 OPV.
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