That Marbella is unique is a maxim that is fulfilled in numerous aspects. Unfortunately, also in the urban plan as 30 years imposes and more if it refers to the validity of a General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) to regulate the construction of new housing for a booming sector, both in the Locality and in the neighboring municipalities of the Costa del Sol.
Two years ago, the Supreme Court declared void the PGOU of Marbella of 2010, returning to be restored the old Urban Planning Plan of 1986.
A story that shocked the real estate and construction sectors, not surprising, as among the many consequences of this annulment, it is worth mentioning the reduction of land available for the construction of multi-family dwellings and plots for single-family homes.
For Ricardo Arranz de Miguel, president of the Andalusian Federation of Developers and Residential Tourism, the annulment of the PGOU of 2010 was announced. “We knew what the consequences would be because that general plan was an absurdity that was done by a team of architects who did not know Marbella.”
Solutions to cancellation
The concern of the consistory was obvious: that of paralyzing, at the urban level, the municipality of ‘La Milla de Oro’, so they started to look at whether there was still soil to be developed, “either programmed soil or if we could put the non-scheduled”.
For this reason, the municipal government team set to work, almost never better said, elaborating a study that, in the words of the Marbella town councilor, Isabel Pérez, is based on “that POTA standard [ Andalusian Territorial Planning Plan] that says that a General Plan can not surpass a percentage with respect to the previous one “being able to send the following reassuring message to the sector last March in an interview granted to Diario Sur: based on the current plan of the 86, “we have quantified that a large number of dwellings can still be developed” that quantified in 17,000 units that are distributed by all the municipal term.
Translated in time these 17,000 units that can still be built on the basis of the 1986 PGOU mean that Marbella will not run out of building land in the next three to four years and can adjust to the current trend in construction High-end housing with a current design, in front of what has traditionally Marbella of very Mediterranean design, with arches and tiles.
“The city is now taking other design road. And that has room in the Plan of 86. It is true that this Plan, in some aspects these homes have some shortcomings, because these homes work a lot with double height and with a different type of construction. But that is what we are trying to change with a change that we are going to make in this period to the Plan of 86, that the change of regulations in which we are working, “explained the mayor in said interview.
All to one, as in Fuenteovejuna
For his part, the general secretary for urban planning and urban sustainability of the Junta de Andalucía, Rafael Márquez, said last June 29 in a talk – colloquium – debate that was carried out in Capital Radio that the first work to be Has carried out both from the Marbella Town Hall and from the Junta de Andalucía is to provide legal security to the current plan. “There is a general plan in force but we have to have a document that is able to reflect what was approved in its day but also what has been modified in a consolidated text that the City Council has recently approved: with this document there is already a certainty of Which is what is in force, what is approved and what are the urban conditions applicable in the municipalities therefore, the day to day urban planning of Marbella is guaranteed, “said the Andalusian secretary of urbanism.
Eugenio Sánchez Moro, architect and professor of the technical school of the building of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, explained in the same program that in Marbella there is a revival of the city “because of the interest shown by investment funds and For the soils they are studying for new projects, “urging the Administration to give” a hand and help to make urban planning as fast as possible because it can not take five years to develop it. “
To this voice joined the one of Arranz that spurred to the Administration since this one “has to give a quick solution so that they can develop projects: there is much money that comes to Marbella from funds and can not be allowed to leave because Investment is what creates wealth and employment and you can not throw the brand Marbella that is one of the best brands in Spain and Europe.
In this sense, the Secretary General of land planning and urban sustainability of the Government of Andalusia noted that the current short-term challenge that the Junta de Andalucía “have is to see if there are opportunities beyond the General Plan of Marbella Of 1986 by the reactivation of the market that is taking place, to be able to make modifications in this plan and to do it of agile form. With this objective the City Council is finalizing the partial adaptation of the PGOU of 1986 to guarantee not only day-to-day but future projects “confirmed Márquez.
