The highest municipal body met today in an extraordinary session and unanimously gave the green light to the Interior Reform Plan (PRI) document.
The Cádiz Free Trade Zone has had the support of the City Council at all times and is carrying out the procedures as quickly as possible.
Fran González highlights “the importance of consensus to carry out major initiatives, such as the Navalips project, which benefit citizens”
This new phase in the processing, which will culminate with final approval, will last for a period of approximately six months.
The efforts being carried out by the Free Zone to convert the plot of the old Navalips into the outer polygon of the Free Zone into a new neighborhood of Cádiz are advancing quickly after the Plenary Session of the Cádiz City Council in an extraordinary session has approved today initially and unanimously the Interior Reform Plan (PRI) of the ARI-ZF-01, a document that was presented at the City Council by the State delegate in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, at the end of last month July after the environmental processing was reported favorably.
Given the importance of the process for the development of this important initiative for the city, the State delegate in the Consortium, Fran González, wanted to be present at the extraordinary session of the Plenary held today and at its conclusion he pointed out that “institutional collaboration It is extremely important in the development of this project, since it gives the agility in the processing that is necessary to carry it out. Fortunately we maintain a fluid dialogue with the City Council, which provides us with a climate of understanding that benefits the city, even more so considering that it represents a unique opportunity in terms of housing.”
Fran González has expressed his satisfaction because “we have managed to reach an agreement, which is what citizens expect from administrations in major initiatives like this one. Let us not forget that it is about developing a new urban center in a city like Cádiz, in need of space and housing, which will give a new configuration to this entire Zona Franca-Loreto area and will benefit the city and its citizens."
It must be remembered that the Free Zone of Cádiz and Sepides, a public company belonging to SEPI, have promoted action on the land of the old Navalips with a view to developing a new urban center in that space, very close to the Free Zone and the neighborhood. of Loreto, where it is planned to build more than 800 homes – 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.
The PRI is the instrument contemplated in the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) that will accelerate the deadlines for developing this new neighborhood. 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 on in the first quarter of next 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 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 Consortium of the Cadiz Free Trade Zone 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 channels and actions necessary 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.
