Boadilla suspends hospitality and temporary accommodation licenses for one year

The Local Government Board of the Boadilla del Monte City Council agreed on November 5, 2026, to begin the drafting of a Special Plan for the Regulation of Temporary Accommodation Uses and to suspend the granting of hospitality and special residence licenses for one year in ten homogeneous areas of the municipality. The agreement, adopted in an ordinary session, is published in B.O.C.M. No. 268 of November 7, 2026, in section III (Local Administration), under the official reference BOCM-20261107-22.

The competent body is the City Council’s Local Government Board, and the agreement bears the signature of the delegated councilor for Urban Planning, Housing, and Building Maintenance and Cleaning, María Luz de Baldasano Valdé. The suspension is supported by the processing of the aforementioned Special Plan and covers land-use acts, construction and building, and the execution of activities, in order to prevent the implementation of uses during the planning process that may later prove incompatible with the new regulatory framework.

Ten affected homogeneous areas

The territorial scope of the suspension comprises the following homogeneous areas:

• AH3 (Las Eras)
• AH7 (Viñas Viejas)
• AH9 (Bonanza)
• AH10 (Valdecañas)
• AH11 (Las Lomas)
• AH16 (Olivar de Mirabal)
• AH17 (Montepríncipe)
• AH33 (Los Fresnos B)
• AH35 (El Encinar)
• AH38 (Valenoso)

Within these areas, the measure applies to commercial tertiary and equipment ordinances and to all categories of use.

Hospitality and special residences, frozen uses

The suspended uses are, on one hand, type 3 – Dotational Equipment Services (EQ), in subtype 3.4 Social Welfare Equipment (EQ-A), in the part referring to special residences, where 3.6 Hospitality (RE-HO) is suspended. On the other hand, type 4 – Commercial Equipment Services (EC), in subtypes 4.2 Hospitality (EC-H) and 4.6 Social Welfare (EC-B), the latter also in the part relating to special residences, with an identical suspension of 3.6 Hospitality (RE-HO).

The suspension affects new enabling titles requested or submitted for those uses and new requests for the modification of already granted licenses that imply their implementation. It does not, however, affect urban planning license procedures currently in process nor activities that already have a valid enabling title, although the latter may not be subject to substantial modification. Acts of first occupation and operation, as well as activity licenses linked to an urban planning works license currently in process or already granted, are likewise excluded.

One extendable year and two avenues for appeal

The suspension period is one year from the official publication of the agreement and may be extended for another year if the public information period for the planning process in progress has been completed within the first year. The agreement will be published in the OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID and in one of the most widely circulated newspapers in the Community of Madrid, and will be announced on the municipal notice board, the Transparency Portal, and the City Council website.

The full text, including the explanatory memorandum and the legal grounds for the precautionary suspension, is available via the certificate with CSV 28660IDOC2BF6AB91B8E6CF44EA6. The agreement exhausts administrative remedies: an optional appeal for reversal may be filed before the same body within one month, in accordance with articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, or a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Section of the Madrid Court of First Instance within two months, according to articles 8, 45, and 46 of Law 29/1998.

Impact for developers, owners, and residents

The decision freezes, for one renewable year, any new hospitality or special residence project in ten of the municipality’s growth sectors, directly affecting developers with land in those areas and owners who planned to apply for a license or modify an existing one. Those already operating with an enabling title retain their activity, but lose the possibility of a substantial modification for the duration of the suspension, and urban planning consultations or preliminary certificates do not exempt from the measure unless the construction or activity license had been requested before its entry into force.

Source: OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID, no. 268, November 7, 2026, section III (Local Administration), pp. 296-297 (official reference: BOCM-20261107-22).