Santa Coloma: 38 protected homes on the Sant Just street plot

The Municipal Plenary of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, in the session of October 26, 2026, approved the collaboration agreement and the associated management entrustment with the Housing Agency of Catalonia to promote officially protected housing on a municipal plot registered in the public land reserve. The agreement is published in full in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on November 10, 2026, with the reference CVE 202610165020 and fifteen pages of annexes and clauses. The document is signed, on behalf of the municipality, by the mayor Mireia González Sáez, and on behalf of the Agency, by its director, Miquel Bagudanch Gené, with the approval of the municipal secretary, Antonio Luis Peralta Garcerá; the publication agreement is dated November 3, 2026, and bears the signature of the first deputy mayor, Antoni Suárez Pizarro.

A 513 square meter plot on Sant Just Street

The property subject to the agreement is a plot located at number 16 Sant Just Street in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, classified in part as semi-intensive urban densification (key 13b), and the remaining part as newly created parks and gardens (key 6b). The portion affected by the agreement is 513.00 square meters and must be segregated from the registered estate number 49,378, registered in Property Registry number 2 of the municipality.

According to the published description, the plot is under full municipal ownership, has the legal nature of a patrimonial asset, is free of charges, encumbrances, tenants, and occupants, and no potentially soil-contaminating activity has been carried out there. The cadastral reference is 4288311DF3848G0001RB and the current planning allows for a maximum of 38 homes.

Free surface right for 75 years

The City Council establishes in favor of the Agency a free surface right over the plot, without a fee, so that the Agency may process the public tender and transfer it to the awarded developer. The main conditions are:

• Duration of 75 years, extendable for a period not exceeding the legal maximum by mutual agreement.
• Free of charge, given the priority social interest in increasing the supply of protected housing.
• A term of two years from the formalization of the agreement for the award to take place; if it does not occur, the transfer becomes void.
• Tax valuation of the building to be reverted of 438,298.72 euros.
• Exemption from constructing parking spaces in developments intended for rent or transfer of use.

The Agency will assume, with its own means, the preparation of the specifications and the processing of the tender, and will not pass any cost on to the City Council, which commits to resolving the building license within three months and to notify the award resolution within 10 calendar days.

Priority to rental and quotas for youth

The agreed award criteria establish that the rental or transfer of use regime will be prioritized over the transfer of surface rights. The homes will be assigned with the following reserves:

• A maximum of 10% of the homes will be reserved for situations of greater residential vulnerability, through the emergency board.
• A minimum of 25% will be allocated to people aged 35 or younger.
• A minimum registration (empadronamiento) seniority of 3 years will be required.
• The cost of the rent may not exceed 30% of the awardees’ income.

A monitoring commission is created, composed of the deputy director general of Protected Housing Promotion and Associated Residential Land on behalf of the Agency, and the director of Urbanism, Housing and Ecological Transition on behalf of the municipality, which will meet at least every six months.

The framework of the public land reserve

The agreement is framed within Law 13/2009, of July 22, of the Housing Agency of Catalonia, and Law 18/2007, on the right to housing, as well as Legislative Decree 2/2003 regarding municipal competencies in housing promotion and management. The key piece is Agreement GOV/225/2024, of October 15, on urgent measures to increase the supply of protected housing, developed by resolutions TER/607/2025 and TER/742/2026, which regulate the registration of land in the public land reserve and allow the owning entity to entrust the selection of the developer to the Generalitat or its entities.

Developers who apply may access the aid lines of Resolution TER/2515/2025, of July 1, intended for protected housing developments on land registered in the public reserve.

With this agreement, Santa Coloma de Gramenet incorporates into its affordable housing stock a development of up to 38 apartments on public land that previously had no developer, doing so by transferring the management of the tender to the Agency to gain efficiency and economies of scale. Publication in the bulletin is the requirement for the agreement to take effect, so that the tender to award the surface right can be launched.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Barcelona, November 10, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-14 (official reference: CVE 202610165020).