The government of Navarra and UPN present, on the same day, two residential plans for Sarriguren

The housing problem has been a central theme in the political atmosphere of Navarra, so central that two housing proposals collapse over time and location, because both proposals, one of the regional government and the other of UPN and the city of Egués, prophesia, proposals massive Housing constructions in Sarriguren.

The president of Navarra GovernmentMaría Chivite, has been the first to announce an urban project that is considering construction around 4000 public houses In Sarriguren in an area of ​​about 50 hectares, once, together with the city of the Valley of Egüés, this legislative power is approved by the Sector Plan for Supramunicipal Incidence (PSIs) that “completes this population core and improves the mobility infrastructure.”

This has been improved in statements to the media before he participated in a day about housing organized by CCOO and was attended by the Secretary General of the trade union organization, Unai Sordo.

Chivite has detailed that the director manages a residential performance “100 % public, which could occupy about 50 hectares, are capable of around 4000 houses subject to various security regimesEven the new modalities that configure the general directorate of the housing “.

The expansion of Sarriguren, Chivite said, was already considered in the earlier studies of the current residential area and has confirmed that “has a perfect side” with the predictions of the territorial planning plan of the Pamplona Metropolitan Area. The new plan will therefore complete and propose the current core of Sarriguren New infrastructure that “existing and improving existing, especially with regard to mobility”.

For his part, Upn has presented, in one Press conference earlier convened To Chivite’s statements, a new one Urban development for 5000 houses, half of them protected, In Valle de Egüés, “the low supply of new homes for Pamplona citizens would help reduce”

The proposal was presented by the President of Unión del Pueblo Navarro, Cristina Ibarrola and the mayor of Valle de Egüés, Xuriñe Peñas and, as they have explained, this bodemobilation is located in an area of ​​1 176,000 square meters Adjacent to the core of SarrigurenHe points out that it is “an expansion that is practically comparable to the current development of Sarriguren.”

The approval of this new development could be achieved “in about 16 months,” said the mayor who said that they will be “as agile as possible”, and therefore this Friday will convene an extraordinary urban planning commission.

Call to work together

In statements to Chain from Navarra, Oscar ChiviteMinister of Territorial Cohesion of the Navarra government, called To the city of Egués To collaborate with the government to get the project “In a peaceful way as quickly as possible”.

He has warned that the adaptation of the municipal city plan of the city of Egués “would force a general revision of the plan by law, because it could lead to many of the growth reasons of the current plan”, a assessment that calculated, could lead Up to five years, which would follow detailed design and approval for another two years.

He emphasized that UPN’s approach would be crippled because he is not considering “an improvement in accessibility in an area where there are already problems”, to which he has added “according to the plans we have known today, the plan [de UPN] Would generate even nicer than it exists.

Sarriguren is a new municipality (2004) that today has a population of 16,000 inhabitants. Both urban projects would almost double this population.