Urban transformation in two stages: the transformation of the Campamento installations and the finish of the south west is intended to create a new centre with various uses together with the contiguous towns of Pozuelo de Alarcón and Alcorcón and integrated into the natural spaces.
This involves integrating planning that requires a new communications system. A new “Southern Castellana” that connects with the surrounding districts and a new road system using sustainable mobility based on public transport, underground and bus, which facilitates the use of bicycles and removes architectural barriers.

The project’s main objectives are, firstly, to regenerate the land occupied by former military installations in an area of natural expansion in Madrid and, secondly, to contribute towards making effective the constitutional right to dignified and accessible housing, through the purchasing of public land, including in the operation a significant proportion of protected housing, and, thirdly, to carry out an exemplary urban action due to its concept in terms of sustainability, for the co-operation between government departments and for its contribution to the economical development of south-west Madrid.

The issuing of the joint report from the Ministries of Defence and Housing on 21 January 2005 started the Operation Campamento with urban development on 9 million square metres of land.
The Operation was developed through two agreements signed by both Ministries with the Madrid City Council and the Madrid Regional Government containing the undertakings by the various government departments including the building of the necessary infrastructures and the wish to speed up all the necessary procedures.

The first phase, on 2.1 million square metres of land, involves building 10,700 homes of which at least 7,000 - more than 65% - will be protected and of which 1,100 will be rented to young people. The second phase, on 6.8 million square metres of land, involves building 11,400 homes, of which 50% will be protected.
Land will also be reserved for public services to improve the residents’ quality of life. Specifically, 350,000 m2 of green areas, 180,000 m2 for equipment, 120,000 m2 for public services, 70,000 m2 for sports areas and 30,000 m2 for transport.

The beneficiaries will be the entire public in the City of Madrid, some 5.5 million according to the Statistical Atlas of the Ministry of Housing, since, as well as benefiting from the new equipment available to the public, the operation will on the one hand have a very favourable effect on housing prices, increases of which are one of the public’s main concerns, and, on the other, the stimulation of the local economy.

The financial viability will rest on the central, regional and local governments’ wishes expressed in various agreements approved to support the operation financially.

01/01/2005

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Urban Policy > Housing

Housing policy