The extraordinary Plenary has definitively approved the General Municipal Planning Plan with votes from the PP, OSP, and VOX, and the abstention of the PSOE. The document replaces the planning from 1986 and reserves 20% of buildability for affordable housing on urban land.
The extraordinary Plenary of the Marbella City Council has definitively approved this Friday the new General Municipal Planning Plan (PGOM), the first in Andalusia adapted to the Law for the Promotion of Sustainability of the Territory of Andalusia (LISTA). The vote passed with the support of the government team of the PP, OSP, and VOX, while the PSOE abstained.
The document replaces, in its general planning determinations, the planning that governed the city since 1986 and configures a territorial model adapted to current urban legislation. According to data provided by the City Council, the PGOM contemplates 53 million square meters of urban land, compared to approximately 40 million from the previous planning, and incorporates provisions for new developments, public housing, infrastructure, facilities, green areas, and spaces for economic activity.
The mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, emphasized that this milestone "opens a new era" and defined the document as a "city plan for and by Marbella". The mayor highlighted the collaborative work process with technical teams, administrations, professional groups, and citizens, and thanked the efforts made over the years "to resolve the urban complexity of the municipality".
"The result transcends any mandate and constitutes a tool aimed at ensuring the future of the locality, adapting its planning to the current reality and providing a more flexible framework to face new challenges"
One of the aspects that the mayor considered essential is the legal security that the document provides. In this context, she recalled that around 18,000 homes were left outside a situation of urban regularity "as a consequence of the complex evolution of municipal planning" and pointed out that the new framework "provides a guarantee for third parties in good faith and for families linked to these properties".
The councillor for Urbanism, José Eduardo Díaz, explained during his speech at the Plenary that the definitive approval "represents the culmination of years of technical work, studies, citizen participation, and sectoral reports, and at the same time, the beginning of a new era for Marbella". The councillor detailed that the document addresses challenges such as housing, mobility, infrastructure, sustainability, and land protection.
"The planning contemplates new possibilities to generate affordable housing and to enable residents to develop their life projects in the municipality; it reserves spaces for future mobility infrastructure, including railway connections; proposes new road connections and an expansion of cycling and parking networks"
In urban land, the proposed actions must reserve 20 percent of buildability for affordable housing, as detailed by the mayor. The planning also links new projects to the creation of protected properties and at regulated prices.
The definitive approval comes after a prolonged technical and administrative procedure and after incorporating the sectoral reports required by various administrations, including the favourable approval from the Junta de Andalucía. The document will be developed in detail with the future Urban Planning Plan (POU), which is currently being processed.
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