The City Council of Mataró (Maresme) is studying a modification of the General Plan to increase the stock of officially protected housing. The Plenary has approved to suspend the licenses for new constructions and certain integral rehabilitations in plots of urban land.
The ordinary plenary session of June, held on the 2nd, approved a suspension of licenses to study a punctual modification of the General Urban Planning Plan that contributes to increasing the stock of officially protected housing in consolidated urban land.
This modification of the planning is one of the strategic actions included in the Mandate Plan to help guarantee the right to housing for citizens, advance in achieving the objective of urban solidarity, and at the same time favor a distributed distribution of housing of official protection in the city.
The suspension in the granting of licenses will apply in the case of new construction interventions and certain cases of major rehabilitation on plots of consolidated urban land with a potential multi-family housing ceiling of more than 600 m2. It also affects, in this type of plot, works to change the building as a whole from urban use to housing, and unfinished buildings, with works stopped for more than 2 years and the license expired.
Excluded from the suspension are the licenses requested with a date prior to the suspension and those requested based on a valid urban certificate prior to the suspension. Plots pending construction in sectors or polygons where a 30% reserve has already been planned for officially protected housing are not affected, nor are plots with a degree of protection A, Bv and Bs in accordance with the Special Plan of the Architectural Heritage of Mataró.
With the aim of carrying out this modification, and in accordance with the provisions of the basic legislation of administrative procedure, the City Council has initiated a prior public consultation through the Decidim Mataró platform to collect the opinion of citizens and the most representatives that could potentially be affected by this modification of urban planning.
In accordance with Law 18/2007 on the Right to Housing in Catalonia, in order to make the right to housing effective throughout the territory of Catalonia, the municipalities included in areas declared by the Sectoral Territorial Housing Plan as areas of strong residential demand and accredited must have, within a period of twenty years, a minimum stock of dwellings destined for social policies of 15% with respect to the total number of existing main dwellings.
In this sense, the Local Housing Plan 2018-2023 estimates the public and private housing stock included in public programs at 538, which would mean 1.15% of the main housing stock in the municipality. If we add to this stock, the private rental housing stock subject to forced extension and social rental housing managed by financial entities, it can be considered that the housing stock allocated to social policies in the municipality stands at 3,591, which It represents 7.63% with respect to the main housing stock.
