The City Council promotes an urban development plan that will allow the construction of more than 500 subsidized housing units

The Consistory gives light to the development of a partial plan in the area of Arroyo Judío, where it will not be allowed to raise free housing if it is not accompanied by VPO. It is the first time that the current government team can take this step, after years of blockage resulting from the urban management of the PSOE, whose stage did not force developers to reserve land for subsidized housing.

The Estepona City Council has given the green light in the plenary session to the initial approval of the modification of a partial plan for the urban development of a plot of 655,250 square meters in the area of Arroyo Judío, where 683 free income housing units can be built, which must be accompanied by another 518 subsidized housing units (VPO).

The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, explained in the plenary session that in this sector the City Council “will only grant a license of first occupation to free income housing, if the subsidized housing is finished”.

The councilman recalled the “significant lack of land for VPO that drags the city of Estepona, a consequence, once again, the urban inheritance of the previous government of the PSOE. Thus, it has stressed that the city has lost the opportunity to build more than 1,500 subsidized housing (VPO) by the disastrous urban management carried out by the PSOE in the city during the years 2005 and 2007.

That of Arroyo Judío is the first partial urban development plan on residential land that can approve the current municipal Corporation since 2011, and in which the current legislation will be complied with, forcing the reservation of 30 percent of VPO in future promotions that ask to be developed. “It is an objective reality that the situation left by the PSOE has deprived the city of having land reserved for VPO, a pity, because if at that time had not been run sterile in making those initial approvals of the plans, today we would have those soils and at some point those VPO could have been developed,” García Urbano has stressed.

In this sense, he explained that “with the project that we bring to approval, is the first time that this government team has the opportunity in 14 years and without skipping the legal security, and respecting the previously approved partial plans, to force the simultaneous free housing with the VPO,” so that in the processing of the file there will be the condition that for the City Council to grant a license for first occupation of a house in this sector, simultaneously will have had to apply for a license for first occupation of VPO in this sector.

The plot is located in the western part of the municipality, with a total area of 655,250 square meters. The approval brought to the Plenary allows the generation and development of building land for residential use, as well as the free transfer to the City Council of roads, open spaces, equipment and parking, as well as the reservation of 30% of the maximum density for subsidized housing.