The Málaga City Council approves a modification of the agreement to acquire 179,027 square meters of the sector, but the development is still pending environmental approval from the Junta. The works have no certain horizon.
The project to build a thousand protected homes on the land of Soliva Oeste, to the west of Málaga, still has no start date two years after the municipal government team presented it. The Municipal Urban Planning Management approved a modification of the agreement on Monday, under which the City Council acquired this land in exchange for granting urban rights to the developers Edipsa and Myramar in the nearby Lagar de Oliveros operation, as reported by Diario Sur.
The vote passed with opposition from PSOE and Con Málaga, and an abstention from Vox. The approved change is formal and allows the City Council to properly assume the entirety of the 179,027 square meters of the sector. Before the homes can be built, the land must first be developed, and that process has not yet been completed.
The Municipal Housing Society hired the local company Ingesa Ingeniería y Diseño in mid-last year to draft the development project and oversee the works, with a budget of 284,350 euros and a timeline of 18 months for supervision once the work begins. Those works cannot start yet because the document must obtain environmental approval from the Andalusian government.
“The document has already been sent to the Junta de Andalucía to process the environmental procedure”
Municipal sources indicated on Monday that the file is already in the hands of the regional government, although there is no known timeline for the environmental green light. The operation is valued at 195 million euros in total and would double the number of protected homes built in recent years to the west of the expansion of the Teatinos campus, whose deliveries will begin in the coming weeks or months.
The planned distribution is 500 homes handed over to private developers for execution and operation, while the other half would be taken on by the City Council. This municipal part requires financing of 106 million euros for both the development of the land and the construction of buildings for protected rental apartments. To cover the cost, the government team is processing a loan of 40 million euros from the European Investment Bank and plans to apply for European, state, and regional grants to complete the financing.
The development of the operation will still take several years, amid a housing crisis in the city.
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