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Barcelona City Council announces new developments concerning the application of Decree-law 3/2023, on urgent measures on the urban planning regime for tourist accommodation and the modification of the PGM for obtaining public subsidised housing

Decree-law 3/2023, on urgent measures on the urban planning regime for tourist accommodation (hereinafter DL 3/2023), approved on 7 November, regulates tourist accommodation in a total of 262 municipalities in Catalonia, including Barcelona. All of them are municipalities that either present problems of access to housing or have more than 5 tourist flats per 100…

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The Supreme Court upholds the appeal filed by the Royal Spanish Football Federation against the CSD’s decision to reject the approval by administrative silence of its reform of the 2018 General Regulations.

The Fourth Section of the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court has partially upheld an appeal brought by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (hereinafter, RFEF) against the decision of the Board of Directors of the Superior Sports Council (hereinafter, CSD), by virtue of which it did not approve the proposed reform of certain articles of…

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The Supreme Court rules on the mandatory reports of the State Administration in the processing of urban development plans that affect the maritime-terrestrial public domain and its protection zones and about the exercise of the autonomous administration’s power to protect urban development legality in the protection easement zone of the maritime-terrestrial public domain.

The Supreme Court has issued two relevant rulings on coastal matters; the first, ruling number 247/2024, of 13 February 2024, related to urban planning, and the second, ruling number 83/20024, of 19 January 2024, related to the exercise of the power to protect urban planning legality. In the first judgment, the Supreme Court points out…

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The factual situation of the land may condition the choice of the type of strategic environmental assessment to be followed during the processing of urban planning instruments.

The environmental assessment is a procedure for incorporating the environmental dimension into strategic decision-making from the drafting stage of plans and programmes to foresee the effects that the projects and activities authorised under them may have. The environmental assessment is so important that its absence or deficiency leads to the nullity of the plan or…

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Barcelona City Council initially approved the specific modification of the special plan for the uses of activities linked to home delivery.

On April 16, 2024, the agreement of the Government Commission of April 4 of the same year was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona (BOPB), which initially approves the specific modification of the Special Plan for the uses of activities linked to home delivery. The amendment document is in the public…