Friday 21st July 2017
THE CALVIÀ TOWN HALL AND THE REGIONAL MINISTRY FOR TERRITORY, ENERGY AND MOBILITY SIGN A COLLABORATION AGREEMENT WHICH WILL BEGIN THE CONSTRUCTION OF 88 SOCIAL HOUSING IN MAGALUF
With the signing of the agreement, a competition of ideas is initiated to prepare the preliminary project of the houses that will be intended for rental
The mayor of Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, and the Regional Minister for Territory, Energy and Mobility, Marc Pons, have signed a collaboration agreement to launch a competition of ideas for the preliminary project to build 88 public housing, for rental, in one of the two strategic land reserves in Magaluf, specifically in Avinguda de l'Olivera.
The ownership of the lands where the construction of public housing will be carried out is mixed: half of it belongs to Calvià Town Hall (2,147 m2 of building land for 24 houses), and the Ibavi has the same surface for 24 more houses, but also has 2,863.20 m2 for 40 public housing units of indirect management by competition between promoters, according to the legislation. The rest of the lot is privately owned. In total, 168 homes will be built, of which 88 will be public and the remaining 80 will be free.
The mayor has stated that Calvià is in luck because it urgently needs public housing projects, and the objective is to be able to issue all the strategic land reserves in Calvià (2 in Magaluf and one in Santa Ponça), which will allow the construction of nearly 1,000 homes, including those of public and private promotion.
Alfonso Rodríguez Badal said that, even acknowledging that these are long-term issues, he is confident that "by the end of 2018 machines will start to do their work". "Now has begun -he added- "after years without having done anything " a housing policy, which is a commitment of the municipal government team and of the investiture agreements.
For his part, the Minister recalled that "it has been seven years since a contest of ideas to carry out a project of these characteristics has been called." Marc Pons has pointed out that "in fact, the promotion of public housing has been stopped during the last legislature and this government has re-activated it as a line - which is not the only one - of housing policy."
The 88 houses that will be public are the object of the contest of ideas that will be convened this year.
The terms and conditions include the optimisation of costs, functional and architectural quality and the implementation of environmental measures. In addition, the preliminary projects have to include the possibility of execution in different phases according to the ownership of the plots.
The only economic obligations that derive from this contest of ideas are those destined to the payment of the prizes of the winner and finalists: 10,000 euros for the winner and two prizes of 5,000 euros each. The Town Hall and the Regional Ministry will organise a public exhibition of the works presented or selected, which may be itinerant (Town Hall, Ibavi's headquarters and the College of Architects).