THE land of the old municipal stadium could accommodate a new retirement homeThe initiative already has the approval from the Zone of Urban planningwhich responded affirmatively to the request of the company that owns the land, Construcciones y Contratas Cabello, regarding the viability of making the residential use of these 22,674 square meters – where the construction of 171 officially protected housing units (VPO) was initially planned – compatible with social assistance.
As confirmed by the Urban planning consultantCharo Valverde, the legal services of this delegation considered that both uses can be used simultaneouslybecause complementary uses of this plot are envisaged in the PGOU, including social use.
According to Valverde, the projectof character privatewould use for this purpose the land located at the corner of Montemayor Street and Avenida de Santa Teresa. “This is a first step. Now the business should present the correspondent urbanization project And run itincluding green spaces“, says the popular councilor. The two remaining pills would remain linked to sheltered housing and could be developed later.
The company’s decision comes after the Lucena City Council rejected, three months ago, the possibility of undertaking the purchase of these former municipal landvalued at an amount close to 1.5 million eurosalready having a large lot of municipal residential land for VPO in “El Zarpazo”.
The initiative was born last February, after having taken note of the opinion of the Advisory Board from Andalusia, which forced the city council to back down in its intention to revise ex officio a resolution issued in 2009, which definitively approved the detailed study. The measure aimed to cancel this decision, which set the construction of 171 officially protected housing units (VPO) on these lands and to respond to the property’s request to build 70 percent of free rental housing and only 30 percent of protected housing.
