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Urbanism unblocks this road infrastructure to connect the new neighbourhood to the south with the Venta de Antequera roundabout, which will be added to the roundabout now under construction on the Avenida de Las Razas roundabout.
Sevilla, 05 April 2022. Sevilla City Council, through the Council of the Urban Planning and Environment Management Department, will approve this Wednesday the signing of two agreements with the Provincial Council and the Andalusian Regional Government to make possible the access road to the new Palmas Altas Sur neighbourhood, where the company Metrovacesa is already carrying out the urban development work for the construction of a residential area of more than three thousand homes. “This is a great agreement between the three public administrations promoted by the City Council and an example of public-private collaboration to continue advancing in this strategic project for the expansion of the city towards the south”, explained the delegate for Urban Habitat and Social Cohesion, Juan Manuel Flores.
Specifically, Urbanism will initially approve the agreements to be signed with the entity Sevilla Activa, belonging to the Seville Provincial Council, and the Junta de Andalucía as owners of the land necessary for the construction of the Southern Access, in order to obtain the advance provision of this land so that Metrovacesa can already have this land and carry out the consequent works on the future road.
Similarly, the land for the construction of the road that will provide access from the southern end and connect with the Venta de Antequera roundabout is also included. In this case, given that the affected areas are located in the SUS-DBP-03 Cortijo del Cuarto Norte sector and belong to Sevilla Activa and the Junta de Andalucía, agreements have been signed with both entities. In exchange for making the land available for this large urban and residential operation, both public administrations will be compensated at a later date with land use in the development of the Cortijo del Cuarto Sur land. In the case of the land transferred by the Junta in Cortijo Cuarto Norte, Metrovacesa also undertakes to carry out, at its own expense, the necessary adaptation works so that the Junta can continue to develop provisional judicial and agricultural uses.
Following the initial approval of these agreements, the documents will be on public display for 20 working days before final approval and signature. The City Council will then make the land available to the real estate company so that, as soon as the construction project is finally approved, it can begin work, as it has done with the Northern Access.
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This step therefore represents a major administrative agreement to consolidate the development of this large area of 680,000 square metres of land in the south of the city, destined to become a new neighbourhood with almost 3,000 new homes, which will also have open spaces and land for facilities, Services of Public and Social Interest, commercial and tertiary uses.
“The disconnection that until now weighed on this strategic area of expansion of the city is completely overcome with the construction of the North Access in execution and with the next road that will join this land to the South and that is the protagonist of this important agreement. The south of the city has been reaffirmed as the city’s great area of expansion, where important service, tertiary and residential projects are currently converging, and these new and important roads are also contributing to their development”, concluded the delegate.
Such was the commitment made by the City Council and Metrovacesa in 2018 on the occasion of the agreement signed between the two to definitively promote the urban development of this land in Palmas Altas Sur, which had been paralysed for the previous seven years. In this regard, the agreement expressly stated that the Consistory undertook to provide the land necessary to build the two access roads to the sector, directing all the necessary operations and institutional agreements. For its part, Metrovacesa undertook to build them at its own expense and then hand them over to the municipality. After this joint work, the land owned by the Port Authority was obtained, on which the construction of the North Access, which connects this area with the roundabout located on Avenida de las Razas, depended. After making them available and approving the construction project, the works on this road, taken on by the company Metrovacesa, are now underway.
Source: ABC de Sevilla.
