The controversy new Law of Suelo

    The new Law of the ground that comes to never replace the Law of the Regime of Suelo of 1998 has been free of controversy, entered the past 1 of July in force and the different considerations they conform which it are valued of very different way according to treats the Socialist Party or the Popular Party. We are going to try to enumerate the most important dispositions of the law, the objective that is tried with them according to the government and like critics are interpreted by the Popular Party or the voices that they present his censure the law.

    Most showy or popular of the new norm it is that a 30% of the residential ground for the construction of protected house are preserved, the famous VPO. In this way the government indicates clearly that he is wanted to foment the house of official protection. But the voices critics with the government indicate that this disposition which will do will be to increase the price of the free houses, since somebody will have to pay the protected houses, and will be the buyers of free houses. In this way it will increase the demand of the protected houses since the free houses would raise in excess, not being able then to accede to them, and therefore every time the percentage of ground will be the major that will have to destine to the construction of social or protected house. In opposite sense, it is indicated that if a great market of house protected to accessible prices forms, as in this case, 30% that it forces the law to preserve for social house of the ground of the city-planning plans, will be much more complicated to sell the free houses to a price greater than their true costs, taking to the constructors and the real estate ones to speculating on less, and not increasing their prices extremely.

    Another disposition of the law is the increase of the ground that the constructors must yield the city council when they raise a building. Previously one was due to yield between a 5% and 10%, now he will be between a 5% and a 15%, and in exceptional situations it will be possible to be arrived until a 20%. For that they question the law of the ground this means major increase of the land in which it is not possible to be constructed and it will repel in the increase of the prices of the floors.

    On the other hand, according to the law, the money that is pleased in the expropriations, will not have to do and so it hopes that it is worth in the future, that is to say, with the expectations, but with the real situation of the ground at the time of the expropriations. The government indicates that with this disposition it is discouraged the speculation. For example through privileged information it was possible to be known when lands were going to happen to be rustic lands to urbanizable and so money with the re-qualification of lands thanks to this information could be won “nonofficial”. But the opposites to the law settle down that if a rustic land is going away to urbanize, to the proprietor he will be pleased to him like agrarian land, whereas the houses that are constructed in the land are worth equal of faces that if the land were already urban and so somebody “will take” that difference in drug trafficking money, and so the corruption will be favored. 

    Another norm that establishes the Law of Suelo is that whenever a city-planning plan increases a 20% total population of a municipality or the 20% of the constructed total surface they must elevate that proposal to the Independent Community, the Independent Community must give permission and in this way they increase to the prices and the time that happens until it is possible to be constructed. This consideration as all the previous ones also are interpreted of different form by the PSOE and the PP. With these revisions of the urbanizing activities the government indicates that it will be an important brake against uncontrolled urbanism, but contrary to this argumentation the critics with the law indicate. that with this disposition that increases to the proceedings and the time to be able to construct, and this question along with the increase of the percentage of land that the constructors must yield the city councils will make difficult the exit of ground, and so he will be littler and therefore more expensive.

    In addition the norm establishes the obligation to publish the name of all the proprietors who have had a property during the 5 years previous to their re-qualification and mayors and councilmen will have to make a declaration public of their goods

    The president of the government indicates that the new law of the ground increases the number of protected houses, leads the urban growth, protects the landscaping patrimony and environmental, he increases the transparency to radically fight the irregularities and the corruption in the city-planning land. The situations to which it will lead the Law of Suelo that according to the government is positive because they will fight the corruption and will diminish the price of the house, are understood by the opposition party like quite the opposite, negative because they generated more corruption and will increase the price of the house.  Those that questions the law establish that an artificial political urbanizable ground restriction is created with her, being this factor that takes to the increase of the squared meter of the houses.

  The Popular Party is in favor of which the law of the ground is directed towards the liberalization of the ground and not towards the intevencionismo that increases the power of the administrations exceeds he. They establish the voices critics against the law of the ground that whatever more companies are necessary to carry out a city-planning project more broth of culture has for the corruption, consequently according to the opposition to the government the inverse way is crossed that the executive with the law tries, to finish or to fight the speculation and the corruption. Resources of unconstitutionality against the Law of Suelo by the Community Of Madrid, the Valencian Government and the Popular Party have appeared. Hope Aguirre indicates that the Law of Suelo “harms” autonomic competitions clearly, it attacks the property deprived with a “stalinista model”, and will take to an increase of the price of the house.

    But the Government also defends because if the PP looks for that the ground is free or “absolutely urbanizable”, Car to me Chacón he indicates that measurement that was included in the Law of Suelo of 1998 took to extremely increase to the price of the ground a 500% and the one of the house a 150% and I take to the opacity or little transparency and to uncontrolled urbanism. In the new Law of Suelo, like in almost so many the questions, it seems to have agreement does not enter maximum political parties both and what is white for, he is completely black for others, being generated among them an authentic war of guerillas.