New measures in housing The government, through the newly created Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda headed by Isabel Rodríguez, is working on the following issues: To amend the existing Land and Urban Rehabilitation Law. The former Executive Spokesperson stated this in his speech to the Extraordinary Commission last week.
“Aware of the difficulties experienced by urban development through different planning instruments, due to the different cancellations of regional and urban planning instruments, the State has the responsibility to take measures to improve the existing regulatory framework. reactivation of a legal reform It provides these important tools with the stability, certainty and legal security they need. Urban and regional plans are an important tool for housing policy.with. We will do this with the draft law amending the collective text of the Land and Urban Rehabilitation Law. A text that was rejected for processing in the previous legislative assembly (the draft was already in the first round in the Council of Ministers in December 2022) and we are now reactivating it so that the parliamentary process can start during this session,” said Isabel Rodríguez . .
Although the minister’s statements do not arouse great interest among the spokesmen of different political formations, they are an extremely important norm. whose mastermind and ideologist are far from politics. About Isabel Pardo de VeraThe former Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, who was recently sacked over the tunnel-busting train scandal in Asturias and Cantabria, is back in the headlines after failing to sign on as president. rental employers association, Association of Rental Landlords (ASVAL)
Pardo de Vera had already admitted in October 2022 that he was working on reforming the legislation applicable to urban planning: “I would like to point out that we are working intensively to complete a very important legacy, which is a modification of the zoning plan of the land law. We want to prevent urban development activity from being paralyzed due to formal flaws in the process.“. They even went further. The Secretary of State was willing to “tackle the current problems experienced by all developers, both public and private, by addressing the problem of the processing of hundreds of city plans for which general plans have been declared null and void in formal and non-substantive aspects due to judicial objections” ” lawyers “dedicated solely to blackmailing land agents”.
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs was aware of this situation at the same meeting with professionals from the real estate sector. long periods of time that promoters have to wait to obtain a license the work in the municipal process and the extra cost this entails. “We are working on options to help autonomous communities and city councils with new tools they can use to implement urban planning issues, without removing guarantees,” he said.
Juan Antonio Gómez Pintado, president of the employers’ association and the Spanish Association of Developers and Constructors (APCE), is confident in this approval of the new regulation: “After many years of legal regulations, we think this is very good news. Solutions are being offered that will allow to eliminate the uncertainties regarding the urban planning of our country.” Regulatory framework that guarantees the viability of our cities and greater certainty in the housing sector.
What will the New Land Law regulate?
The draft amendment to the Land and Urban Rehabilitation Law has been prepared and published since December 2022. There is a “problem” in Spain Regulations at the time of application regional and urban planning toolswhich results in its invalidity “due to any procedural defect, no matter how trivial”. The aim of changing the law is to increase the “legal security in the field of planning” of new neighborhoods.
At the time of this writing, the need for approval is also “Ensuring the success of numerous investment programs Already approved under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and assigned tasks to different managements: “Housing construction is excluded from negative silence” Public Administrations are subject to certain public protection regimes for social leasing when promoted by their subsidiaries or through public-private partnership formulas.”
The change will also mean that the new Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda will be available to all public administrations. Telematics platform that provides the necessary information to request sectoral reports It has an impact on regional and urban planning instruments as well as on their publication and management. This should put an end to the problem of State inaction or delay in issuing different reports.
People’s Party key to approval
Socialist sources They assume “PP will support Land Law reform”They explain, taking into account that “a few days ago Feijóo made it a priority to guarantee greater legal certainty in urban planning matters.”
However, conservative party sources are betting in this direction for now reduce optimism and they limit themselves to stating that “They are in direct contrast to PSOE’s housing policyIt includes the last parliament’s Housing Bill, one of the biggest opposition banners in the economic sphere, supported by PP, ERC and EH Bildu, and measures supporting illegal squatting. In addition, Feijóo recruited Paloma Martín. The former Minister of Housing of the Community of Madrid was appointed to its national leadership last December and demonstrated clear alignment with the policies implemented by Isabel Díaz Ayuso in this regard.
The point is that this reform of the Land Code has nothing to do with the Housing Code, which includes, among other things, the limitation of rental prices. For this reason See PSOE PPgiven It will be difficult for them to get the green light from their partners on the left.. Sources from the current Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda confirm that the aim is to process the law without changes in practice and to enable different parties to make their own contribution to the law’s subsequent approval in the Cortes.