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The vice mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, and the delegate of the Urban Development Area, Mariano Fuentes, have presented this Tuesday a Shock Plan for licenses and reactivation of the city with eight measures to speed up the bureaucratic processing of works in the capital.
The municipal government plan is intended not only for large new housing developments and urban developments (such as Canalejas or Madrid Nuevo Norte), but above all for the small reforms that more than 70,000 SMEs and self-employed live in Madrid alone, the 34% of the activity of the construction sector.
This period of confinement has served so that the Madrid City Council, in addition to continuing with the day to day, accelerate measures he intended to have ready by the end of the legislature, but that is three years ahead we are three years ahead. “All this is done when sectarianism and ideological easements are parked, and he starts working at the service of the city and its citizens,” explained Begoña Villacís.
“City Hall does not create jobs, but without a doubt can be a facilitating agent and stimulator of economic activity in a very simple way: not hindering and facilitating the procedures, eliminating the bureaucracy and speeding up as much as we can, both the licenses and the files, “said the deputy mayor of Madrid. “They are measures that the sector has been demanding from us for a long time”, He deepened during the telematic presentation to the thought.
For this reason, Mariano Fuentes has indicated that the consistory has worked on two fundamental lines such as “eliminate bureaucratic ‘fat’, organizations and boards that do not contribute anything to the internal procedure and an internal process of auditing and control of each of the works that are carried out to process a license file applying the new technologies ”. This way you will be closer to achieving the Madrid of the future that you have in mind.
The eight measures
This plan contains eight measures presented this Tuesday. These are in headlines: team of on-call inspectors, streamlining of estate reports, elimination of the elevator table, phased licenses, provisional licenses, crash plan to unclog files, technical unit of BIM licenses and the creation of an assistant virtual.
The most important are related to licenses necessary to start a work or to finish it and to be able to hand over the keys to the new owner. To begin with, the municipal government has formed a on-call inspection team for them to go out into the street in order to make, with all the necessary protection measures (they have been tested by the Covid-19), on-site inspections and thus be able to grant licenses for the first occupation of homes that are only in the absence of this visit. “Starting this Thursday, we will facilitate the delivery of more than 1,300 homes in Madrid”, Indicated Mariano Fuentes.
Phased and provisional licenses
In addition, the José Luis Martínez-Almeida City Council may in action phased and provisional licenses. The first objective is that the first phases of a construction site can be started without waiting for the full building license to be granted. “We will not have companies stopped losing money that in the end reverts to the sale price”, Begoña Villacís has influenced. “It will affect 4,000 files,” specified Mariano Fuentes.
As for provisional licenses, they will be granted to be able to start the works in those activities that have been processed by abbreviated ordinary procedure and that have been requested prior to February 1, 2020. To access this provisional license it is necessary that they have complete documentation and appropriate sectoral reports, notwithstanding the fact that their status is subsequently verified to grant the definitive operating license.
In collaboration with the employers of the Madrid property developers (Asprima), the consistory has created a new technical license unit. Through the BIM methodology (Building Information Modeling), a group of municipal technicians is already being formed to urbanistic analysis of projects thanks to a new tool, which will shorten licensing times to a minimum.
The Urban Development Area will initiate this methodology as pilot test in the Mahou-Calderón area, which will serve as an example to compare it with the current concession system. The idea is to extend this form of work to other projects in the city, according to the municipal leaders explained.
Another measure presented this Thursday has been the Crash plan to unclog all files pending resolution. To avoid this, a specific Reinforcement Plan will be created through the Employment Agency that will allow the processing of each type of file to be completed, be it prior communications, abbreviated or simplified procedures, etc.
In this ambit, the municipal government has decided streamline reports related to heritage protection. In this way, from this Monday the possibilities of presenting works to the Heritage Commissions will be multiplied by ten.
Digitization
The second major line of work of the City Council is related to the digitization. Beyond the technical licensing unit, two other measures in the plan rely on digital transformation processes to improve processes.
On the one hand, the Madrid City Council has decided andLimit the Elevator Table. It was created in 2017 to coordinate and expedite the processing of elevator licenses for communities of owners, but “it has not fully met the objective and fewer cases have been resolved than expected.” That is why, from the Urban Development Area, an inter-administrative coordination instruction will be issued that will serve to define a new work process, supported by digitization, so that it can be consulted from each District Board.
PTo conclude, the Executive of the capital will make available to citizens a virtual assistant to help them with the processing of files on the web. It will also report the history of licenses and responsible statements so that those interested know where the file is and what its characteristics are. “It greatly facilitates the work of the technicians and avoids many subsequent requirements that occur during the processing of licenses “, Mariano Fuentes explained.
United with the Community of Madrid
The delegate of the Urban Development Area stressed that “This package of measures that we are going to implement throughout May and June will affect more than 32,000 files. of which 2,000 will do so immediately thanks to phased and provisional licenses ”.
“It is a before and after in the processing of licenses and it will also be complemented by another series of measures that our colleagues in the Community of Madrid want to implement in terms of amending the Land Law that between the two administrations we are going to make Madrid a leading city”, Mariano Fuentes has pointed out.
And it is that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has announced this Thursday a regulatory change to reduce the granting of urban planning licenses in the region as much as possible to allow reactivate the economy before the effects of the Covid-19. “We are going to suppress all urban planning licenses except state licenses and we are going to replace them with responsible declarations,” he stressed in a radio interview.
In this sense, this modification will help eliminate unnecessary or obsolete procedures for the development of economic activities, prioritizing the responsible declaration mechanism that will guarantee that urban development meets the requirements of both urban and environmental law.
In addition, this measure will affect the efficiency of local administrations that is involved in this process, which will be a determining factor in the proper functioning of productive activities and, therefore, in the growth and economic development of the region.
In general, the works for the construction of a new plant with little constructive entity and technical simplicity, the first occupation of the new plant buildings or the enclosures of plots and plots, to cite examples, will be submitted to the responsible declaration regime in urban planning. concrete.
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