Revés judicial para la residencial de las Cocheras de Cuatro Caminos
The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJM) has declared the nullity of the Modificación Puntual de Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de Madrid (PGOU) signed by the team of José Luis Martínez-Almeida last February, which entails the transformation of the old garages in the Madrid district of Chamberí into homes, as well as green areas.
This is stated in a sentence, accessed by Europa Press, in which the appeals filed by Ecologistas En Acción Madrid and the Association Madrid Ciudadanía y Patrimonio are upheld.
The judges side with the appellants regarding their criticisms of the «improper» consideration of the alternatives of urban development in its processing and environmental evaluation, indicating that a detailed reading reveals that «the determinations that should have been met are not fulfilled».
The City Council of Madrid will approve the agreement to unblock the project of the Cuatro Caminos garages
«The proposed alternatives are nothing more than a variable and detailed configuration of the different building structures and the location of the green area and the roads,» the Court considers.
Thus, it insists that «there is no process of environmental analysis, nor of sustainability and improvement of urban quality in the choice, nor is there any different option among them that could give the area in question a different use than the proposed one and that could also represent that improvement,» states the sentence.
RESPONSE TO 443 FAMILIES
The City Council’s plan addressed the situation of 443 cooperative families who have been waiting for years to have their homes in the Chamberí district.
The area covers an area of 43,253 square meters and the buildable area amounts to 59,586 meters, allocating 10% of the residential buildability to protected housing.
A little over three months have passed since the votes of the PP and Vox approved in the Cibeles Plenary the urban agreement between Residencial Metropolitan Sociedad Cooperativa and Metro de Madrid in the old Cocheras de Cuatro Caminos which, according to the delegate of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, «is not a quick win,» as the left accused, but a solution for «good people».
The 443 homes of the Cuatro Caminos garages now only depend on the City Council of Madrid
The first works could start in 2026, as long as no legal appeals succeed.
«They have deeply harmed these 443 families because they have intentionally delayed their right to access their homes. If they had a bit of shame, they would look at the faces of the neighbors of Cuatro Caminos, of the 443 families, and they would see that in their faces there are no vultures or speculators but good families, whose right to access their home that they bought ten years ago has been stolen and they have not given up,» Carabante argued.
«The cooperative system for building homes is a system that should be supported by institutions, as long as normal citizens are behind it,» added Vox councilor Ignacio Ansaldo.
The socialist Antonio Giraldo questioned the cleanliness of the PP’s records while the councilor of Más Madrid, Sara Ladra, criticized the «purely speculative interest of the PP governments with this plot».
The Community approves the specific modification of the PGOU for the creation of the Parque Metro Cuatro Caminos
«OUTRAGEOUS» ATTITUDE
Meanwhile, residents and citizen associations of the Chamberí district have welcomed the sentence and have described it as «outrageous» that the local and regional Administration «express admiration and praise for architect Antonio Palacios, but have been promoters of the destruction of the Metro garages in Cuatro Caminos,» one of his works.
«It was a unique place, with a great capacity for cultural transmission, with the possibility of having constituted a living museum space, networked, and that no other European capital could possess.
It was a dream to make it a reality, and the cost was insignificant. It only required political will and less contempt for the activity and public intellectual activism of the citizens,» they defended in a statement.
End to the conflict over the Cuatro Caminos garages
Madrid Ciudadanía y Patrimonio, Ecologistas en Acción, Corazón Verde, and Parque Sí en Chamberí have urged to «restore and reestablish everything to the previous physical and legal situation, incorporating into any future planning the reconstruction of the extension of the original nine sawtooth hangars, as well as the factory hangar and the two complementary side hangars of the set of the Cuatro Caminos garages».
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