Olesa will cede municipal land to the Housing Agency for 55 dwellings

The Olesa de Montserrat City Council will transfer the municipal plot at number 6 Balmes Street to the Housing Agency of Catalonia so that it may promote a development of protected temporary housing. The municipal Plenary approved the agreement in an ordinary session on September 24, 2026, and the full text is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on November 9, 2026, under reference CVE 202610167176. The agreement enables the Agency to tender the construction and select the developer who will execute the housing.

The plot is registered in the Public Land Reserve of the Generalitat, the mechanism created by Agreement GOV/225/2024, of October 15, and deployed by resolutions TER/607/2025 and TER/742/2026, which establish the registration procedure for public land without a developer. The agreement is a management entrustment covered by Law 40/2015 and Law 26/2010, and is framed within Law 18/2007, on the right to housing.

The document is signed by the director of the Agency, Miquel Bagudanch Gené, and the mayor of Olesa, Marc Serradó Mestres, with the assistance of the municipal secretary, Bernardo Moreno Torroglosa, dated in Olesa de Montserrat on November 3, 2026.

A 2,064 square meter plot qualified for endowment housing

The property subject to the agreement has the following characteristics according to the description contained in the agreement:

• Surface area of 2,064.00 m², irregular in shape, according to the Municipal Urban Planning Plan approved on September 27, 2021.
• Urban qualification SEad2, System of endowment housing facilities, with a maximum of 55 dwellings permitted by the planning.
• Full municipal ownership and legal nature of public domain, free of charges and occupants.
• Registry property 19619 of the Property Registry of Martorell Dos and cadastral reference 7105002DF0070N0000AB.

Free concession for seventy-five years

The City Council establishes an administrative concession on the plot in favor of the Agency, without a fee, with a duration of 75 years. The Agency will process a public tender with publicity and competition, prepare the specifications, and may group plots from various municipalities to facilitate the competition of developers, without passing any cost on to the council.

The planned deadlines are as follows:

• Two years from the signature for the award to take place; otherwise, the concession becomes void.
• One year from the award to formalize the transfer to the developer; otherwise, the plot returns to the City Council.
• Three months for the council to resolve the building permit from the submission of the basic project.
• Ten calendar days for the City Council to acknowledge the award resolution.

Upon completion of the concession, the buildings revert to the City Council in good condition; the parties value the building to be reverted at 378,043 euros. The development is exempt from constructing parking spaces, in accordance with the twenty-eighth additional provision of the Revised Text of the Urban Planning Law.

Reserves for vulnerable groups and youth

The agreement establishes award criteria shared between the two administrations:

• A maximum of 10% of the accommodations are reserved for situations of greater residential vulnerability in the municipality or in municipalities of the region without municipal social services, through the emergency board.
• A minimum of 25% is allocated to people aged 35 or younger.
• A minimum registration (empadronamiento) period of three years is required for applicants.
• The cost of the rent cannot exceed 30% of the income of the awardees.

The monitoring of the agreement will be the responsibility of a commission composed of the deputy general director of Protected Housing Promotion and Associated Residential Land on behalf of the Agency and the head of the Territory and Sustainability area on behalf of the City Council, which will meet at least every six months.

The same Plenary session on September 24 approved a second agreement with similar characteristics for the plot at number 3 Empordà Street, published in the same bulletin with the reference CVE 202610167185, such that Olesa makes two municipal plots for protected housing available to the Generalitat in a single batch.

With this agreement, Olesa de Montserrat transfers the selection of the developer to the Agency and gains access to the aid lines of the Public Land Reserve, an essential preliminary step so that the 55 temporary protected accommodations become a reality and so that the municipality adds public residential supply on land it already owns.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Barcelona, November 9, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-12 (official reference: CVE 202610167176).