THE Maravillas Place Lamberto of Pamplona This will be the new location of the future Lezkairu Civivoxaccording to the new Special Urban Action Plan (PEAU) which lifts the The town hall. This project, which will occupy an area of 19,600 square metersseeks to make this place a nerve center of the cultural and leisure activity of the neighborhood, integrating public spaces such as green spaces, terraces And children’s play area.
THE Maravillas Place Lambertodelimited by the Avenue John Paul II and the Alfredo Landa Parkcurrently partially shelters an area of covered children’s gameswhile the rest of the space remains to be developed. He The town hall aims to redesign the area and modify some of the uses intended in the original design, which called for the construction of approximately 256 accommodations. The municipal council is instead proposing a change of useslimiting tertiary use to only ground floor and adding between 40 and 50 VPO housing for rent young at the initial project.
In addition, measures are being considered to protect commercial activity in the region, such as prohibition transform premises for tertiary use into single-storey dwellings. Likewise, it will offer a variety in the typologies and surfaces of commercial spaces.
The redevelopment of the square also includes a proposal to harmonize the aesthetics of the neighborhood Lezkaïruwhile maintaining the urban land existing on the ground floor with porches and carry out a study of the facades of residential buildings to give an image unified to the whole.
As for the accommodationthe project will allow a dual orientation and spacious terracesand habitability conditions will be improved by widening the spaces between homes, moving from 5 meters running up to 30 meters in some regions, which will result in a substantial improvement in the quality of life.
To inform citizens of developments in this area, the The town hall organized a briefing the next November 27at 6:30 p.m. in Paderborn School in Lezkairu. Throughout 2025, a participation process and a ideas competition define the design of the new Civivoxwhich will include a library and a neighborhood unit.
THE Urban planning management owns the plots that make up the Maravillas Place Lambertowhich were acquired from the Consistory by 20.3 million euros in 2009. The sale of this land will take place in 2025, which will make it possible to resolve a accounting anomaly and allocate resources to projects neighborhood facilities and other initiatives of interest such as Sarasate Walk or the Basque pelota interpretation center.
THE UPN’S REACTION
After learning this news, the UPN municipal group of Pamplona City Hall accused the city’s mayor, Joseba Asiron, of “trying to give a new urban development“in the Maravillas Lamberto de Lezkairu Square. “The use of the plot could be modified, as the UPN has done in others, to make more VPO, but Asiron prefers to earn more money to use it for its interests,” they said. noted.
In a press release, the UPN criticized the intention to “auction a land for housing construction in which it only reserves 17% for social housing, which is another example of its policy of abandoning social housing. “Before, he demanded VPO and the reality is that now that he is in charge, he is offering much less than what the UPN was doing. “, they stressed.
According to the regionalists, the action in this Lezkairu square “proposed the construction of around 260 housing units”, but now EH Bildu “has modified the initial tertiary use of the first floor to use it as housing and thus increase the number total at 300”, of which he offers around 40 or 50 of official protection“.
“They are selling this change as an important step when they could allocate much more to protected housing by modifying the use of the lot, as the UPN has done on several plots. But Asiron prefers to earn more money to allocate it to other uses, to its interests,” they indicated.
According to the UPN, this is “another example of the hypocrisy of EH Bildu and the PSN”. “They talk a lot about protected housingbut the reality is that they abandon it. Their figures are much lower than ours, in which in the land we have auctioned we have allocated 50% to sheltered housing, and a third to social rental, while they offer around 17%,” they said. added.
For UPN, “simply You must have the will to opt for protected housing and non-profit, which is what Asiron does. “We also checked it recently in Arrosadía, where it obtained 9 million euros for not promoting any protected housing,” they emphasized.
In this context, “it is becoming more and more obvious that the Single VPO for sale and rental which will emerge during this mandate are those of our auctions. “Therefore, we will continue with the same problem of access to housing, one of the great needs of citizens, and fundamentally of the youngest”, they concluded from the UPN.
