The Ministry of Housing, Public Works and Structure of the Territory has put out to tender the preparation of an inventory of the developable land of the Valencian Community to «know precisely the administrative status of the land classified as developable in the Community”, as explained by the general director of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and Landscape, Lluis Ferrando.

The tender budget amounts to 71,000 euros and the execution period is set at three months. Interested companies can present the Email Data necessary documentation until September 20 at the headquarters of the Conselleria de València (Ciutat Administrativa 9 d'Octubre, Torre 1), Alicante (avenida Aguilera 1) and Castelló (avenida del Mar 16),

As highlighted by the general director, this inventory will allow us to know « in a rigorous manner the situation in which certain soils are» and thus "will be able to carry out the necessary analyzes and studies to be able to adopt the appropriate measures and provide solutions to certain urban planning issues that are currently stuck."

For Ferrando, this inventory will allow the Generalitat “to have precise and territorialized information on the current situation, at a supra-municipal level, and to be able to analyze the effects of past actions that have generated serious effects in our territory.

The general director has added that there are «developable land that was subject to urban transformation and became urban land due to the execution of urbanization, and there are developable land that, despite of being able to be transformed into urban land, they have not been subject to any urban transformation and maintain their classification of developable but undeveloped land.

«In addition, there are developable lands that, to a greater or lesser extent, have begun their urban transformation that is not completed and, on many occasions, without any plans to finish, in such a way that they are in an intermediate situation, between undeveloped land and the urbanized.

Given this situation, the general director of Territory has recalled that the department is processing the modification of the Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and Landscape Law (LOTUP) «andin which new mechanisms are introduced that allow action in cases of unfinished developments, in the so-called ghost PAIs».

The draft amendment to the Law provides for different solutions in order to enable the lands of certain urban planning actions to return to their initial state before their urban planning programming. For other cases, it establishes measures that enable the completion of urban planning actions, especially the most advanced in the works, by making deadlines more flexible, the possible division of actions and the facilitation of direct urban management by the town councils.