The delegate of the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, has delivered to the mayor of Cádiz, Bruno García, the document for the initial approval of the PRI, once the environmental procedure has been passed.
This new phase in the processing will extend over the next three months in which the sectoral reports will be collected, so that final approval is intended to be obtained at the end of 2024.
The efforts to convert the plot of the old Navalips in the outer industrial area of the Free Trade Zone into a new neighborhood of Cádiz are advancing with enormous speed. The State delegate in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, has today delivered to the mayor of Cádiz, Bruno García, the document for the initial approval of the Interior Reform Plan (PRI) of the ARI-ZF-01, which has passed the Advance phase with the environmental processing, which has been reported favorably weeks ago.
The PRI is the instrument contemplated in the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) that will allow the deadlines for developing the space to be accelerated. In fact, the institutional collaboration between all parties is allowing progress in processing phases with great agility and shortening the expected deadlines, so that the final approval of this Plan can be counted at the end of the year.
The project presented is committed to a realistic management model that makes its execution viable and that is why it has been decided to divide the total scope of action, of 80,989 m2 (ARI-ZF-01), in 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. This planning allows development independently and in phases, which is making it possible to give greater agility to the urban planning process and the development of the works. 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 Zona Franca and Sepides, a public company belonging to SEPI, have promoted action on the land of the former Navalips with a view to providing the space with more than 800 new homes in the city – 50% destined for protected housing –, 10,000 m2 of green areas and 28,000 m2 of commercial areas, creating a new, more inclusive, social and sustainable urban core.
For the Special Delegate of the State in the Consortium, Fran González, “this new step confirms that we are providing agility to the processing and urban planning efforts in collaboration with the City Council, with which a fluid dialogue and a climate of cooperation is maintained. understanding in favor of the revitalization of this strategic area of the city that represents a unique opportunity in terms of housing, which will result in the improvement of the well-being of the citizens of Cádiz."
In this context, the person in charge of Zona Franca has indicated that "the planned schedule is being met and throughout 2025 it is expected that the urbanization project can be put out to tender and the first phase of housing construction will begin."
The mayor of Cádiz, Bruno García, has expressed satisfaction that steps are continuing in a project that is “necessary and beneficial” for the city of Cádiz. In this sense, he added that "the Cádiz City Council will always find institutional loyalty in those initiatives that are good for the city and the generation of housing is one of them."
Bruno García has assured that "from the beginning we committed to speed up all the administrative procedures related to the Navalips project and we are complying with it."
It must be remembered that the origin of the urban development of Navalips dates back more than two and a half years, in which Zona Franca and SEPIDES carried out very intense prior work that concluded with the signing of an Action Protocol in February 2023. between SEPIDES, the Cadiz Free Trade Zone Consortium and the Cadiz City Council, which was attended by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero and the president of SEPI, Belén Gualda and whose purpose was to establish the necessary channels and actions to carry out the transformation of this area of the city and develop a new neighborhood in the outer zone of the Free Trade Zone, next to the current neighborhood of Loreto.
