Cadiz, December 28, 2023
After the approval this morning in the Plenary Session of the City Council of the beginning of the Advancement of the Interior Reform Plan (PRI) of the Navalips project, ARI-ZF-01, Fran González, delegate of the Free Trade Zone, one of the institutions promoting the initiative together with SEPIDES, has positively valued this step in the processing, "decisive for the development of vital land for the reorganization of the city's outer polygon, since it represents the natural growth of the Loreto neighborhood."
“With the approval today of the Plenary of the City Council, it will be possible to send the environmental document to the Board for approval and it will be submitted to public exhibition for thirty days, which would meet the deadlines set in the calendar marked in which we anticipated that throughout 2025 the urbanization project could be put out to tender and the first phase of the construction of the homes could begin,” González explained.
For the delegate of the Fiscal Institution, “this new step in the urban planning process ratifies the climate of understanding and collaboration that is maintained with the City Council, with which there is a fluid dialogue in favor of the revitalization of the exterior industrial estate. , a strategic area of the city that represents a unique opportunity in terms of housing, with more than 800 homes, 10,000 m2 of green areas and 28,000 m2 of commercial areas, which will result in the improvement of the well-being of the citizens of Cádiz.”
"Not in vain, the plan details four development alternatives and the chosen one is the one that expands protected housing up to 50%, developing a new urban center in the city - so in need of housing solutions -, more inclusive, social and sustainable”, reported the delegate of the Free Zone,
González thanked all the City Council groups for “the good disposition shown from the first moment to develop this project, along with others as important as the UE-EX 08 Base Zone plot, in which four works are being carried out simultaneously. and which will also form a unique revitalization space in the city, with the building made of recycled maritime containers that will house the technological incubator, Incubazul; a hotel and a student residence, very important investments for the city that demonstrate the results of public-private collaboration, a model that we are also going to apply in Navalips.”
Thus, the good result of the work scheme carried out by the Free Trade Zone for the Base Zone unit will be the one that is now also carried out in Navalips, “reorganizing, giving legal security and providing the resulting future plots with all the services for their subsequent tender. In short, giving opportunities to private investment. We have verified that the private initiative responds when presented with certainties and orderly spaces,” González explained.
The development of the Navalips project
It must be remembered that the origin of the urban development of Navalips dates back to two years ago, in which Zona Franca and SEPIDES carried out very intense prior work that concluded with the signing of an Action Protocol last February between SEPIDES , the Cadiz Free Trade Zone Consortium and the Cadiz City Council, which was assisted by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, and whose purpose was to establish the channels and actions necessary to carry out the transformation of this zone of the city.
The PRI – drafted by Eddea – has been the instrument contemplated in the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) that was going to be able to accelerate the deadlines for the development of this space, whose total scope of action is 80,989 m2 (ARI-ZF-01) and which has been delimited into four execution units: UE-ZF-01 Núñez de Balboa, 20,995 m2; the UE-ZF-02 Manuel de la Pinta, with 33,016 m2; the UE-ZF-03 Vejer Norte, with 5,934 m2; and UE-ZF-05 Jimena, with 21,044 m2.
The project is therefore committed to a realistic management model that makes its execution viable and therefore the division into execution units allows development independently and in phases, which is making it possible to give greater agility to the urban planning process and to the development of the work. It will be in the EU ZF-2, in which Zona Franca and SEPIDES are majority owners, where the first phase of the project will begin.
The Free Trade Zone, with the collaboration of the City Council and a public-private investment model, wants the Navalips project and the already advanced Zona Base-Incubazul project in the former Ibérica Aga to represent the definitive boost to the reorganization of the exterior industrial estate, a opportunity for the city, to attract investments, to generate employment and generate housing solutions, forming an area with mixed uses in which a new, more sustainable industrial model will coexist, with commercial, residential uses, facilities and green areas.
