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Carazo Presents Guide to Streamline Housing in Spanish Municipalities

The FEMP launches recommendations to reduce administrative hurdles and promote residential construction across Spain.

Close-up of a Spanish housing development blueprint with a pen resting on it, set against a backdrop of blurred modern apartment buildings under a clear blue sky.
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Close-up of a Spanish housing development blueprint with a pen resting on it, set against a backdrop of blurred modern apartment buildings under a clear blue sky.

The Mayoress of Granada and head of FEMP's Housing Commission, Marifrán Carazo, has presented a guide with recommendations to expedite housing procedures in Spanish municipalities, aiming to reduce administrative barriers and boost construction.

In an effort to address the growing concern over housing access, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) has launched the Guide to Recommendations for Agile Housing Procedures. The document, presented in Madrid by FEMP president María José García-Pelayo and the Mayoress of Granada and head of the Housing and Urban Planning Commission, Marifrán Carazo, offers a roadmap to facilitate the construction of new homes. It seeks to simplify municipal administrative procedures, reduce bureaucratic burdens, strengthen legal certainty, and expedite processing times.
The guide is based on real experiences and best practices from various Spanish municipalities, with Granada contributing its urban planning management expertise. The shared diagnosis is that housing access is a primary problem for citizens and that increasing residential supply is crucial. The document identifies key obstacles such as delays in urban planning licenses, differing interpretations, communication difficulties, the need for sectoral reports, and a lack of digitalization, noting that some procedures can take over two years.
To tackle these challenges, the guide is structured into six areas: training of municipal staff, digitalization, improvement of internal organization, administrative simplification, public-private collaboration, and the role of local entities in promoting affordable housing. Proposed measures include reinforcing technical teams, full digitalization of files, using new technologies, and tools like the responsible declaration, alongside improving urban planning information and inter-administrative collaboration.
Marifrán Carazo emphasized that facilitating housing access must be a shared priority, promoting measures to increase supply and offer certainty to developers and investors. "We need more agile procedures that allow us to increase residential supply and offer greater certainty to those who want to invest and develop housing in our cities," she stated. She highlighted the importance of legal certainty and adapting urban planning instruments to current needs, not to reduce guarantees, but to eliminate unnecessary steps and modernize procedures.
The guide analyzes experiences from municipalities such as Granada, Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Zaragoza, A Coruña, and San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Granada's participation stems from its measures to increase residential supply, including granting licenses for over 3,000 homes (more than half protected), creating a municipal land bank for 3,933 affordable homes, and adhering to the Andalusian Decree-Law on urgent housing measures. The renewal of the General Urban Planning Plan aims for sustainable growth and reaching a population of 250,000.

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