The director general of Territorial Planning announces in Málaga a review of Article 24 of the LISTA, which prevents building if there is another house within 200 meters. The measure aims to adapt the regulation to the Axarquía and the coast, where plots are smaller.
The Andalusian Government is going to review the General Regulation of the Law of Territorial Sustainability of Andalusia (LISTA) to modify the articles that are causing problems in the province of Málaga, especially in the Axarquía and on the coast. This was announced this Friday by Francisco Javier Díaz, director general of Territorial Planning of the Junta, during the forum 'Málaga in Transformation. The New General Plans', organised by Diario Sur.
The central point of the review is Article 24 of the regulation, which only allows the construction of new homes on rustic land if there is no other building within a radius of 200 meters. Díaz explained that this criterion cannot be applied equally in all territories: "You cannot treat the Sevillian countryside the same as the Axarquía or the Málaga coast." The director general argued that in the province there are urban conurbations with very different plot sizes and that the regulation must adapt to that reality.
"You cannot treat the Sevillian countryside the same as the Axarquía or the Málaga coast. That is the purpose of the review we are going to carry out"
The review aims to reduce the 200-meter limitation in areas where the high density of housing already makes it very difficult to build new constructions, as is the case on the Málaga coast. The announcement was made during a debate moderated by Jesús Hinojosa, a journalist from Diario Sur specialising in Urbanism, who was also joined by María Cristina Goncer, deputy general legal director of the new General Urban Planning Plan of Madrid, and José María Baño, lawyer and professor of Administrative Law.
Baño advocated for a profound change in planning: "We have a suit with a legal technology from the fifties and seventies that is absolutely inadequate for what we need today." The professor argued for replacing the static general plan with a strategic plan with major structural lines and the lands where construction is not allowed, leaving the rest linked to public or private investment.
Goncer explained that the Madrid City Council is working on a flexible planning that regulates city strategies and derives the normative content to other instruments such as ordinances. The deputy general legal director acknowledged that the new Madrid regulations are inspired "to a large extent" by the Andalusian LISTA.
Díaz took the opportunity to assess the application of the law in Málaga. He detailed that thirteen general municipal planning plans are being processed in the province: Alhaurín de la Torre, Álora, Benamargosa, Cártama, Casabermeja, Casares, the capital, Marbella (which is expected to be approved in weeks), Nerja, Rincón de la Victoria, Ronda, Torremolinos, and Vélez-Málaga. In addition, there are another 18 basic municipal planning plans, a figure that, in his opinion, allows small municipalities to avoid facing general plans that previously took ten years or more to be approved.
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