The announcement of the arrival of the Hilton chain in a new tower under construction at Part of the Oak it overshadowed an operation that the promoters themselves were promoting at the same time. A very special initiative too. It was and is about the purchase of the land in front of the common of Escaldes on the other side of the river and which now occupies a parking lot, for tens of millions, with the aim of building a block of flats in height. A building of up to twenty floors in the image of those in the whole area. nothing new But now, a few months after the operation, it turns out that it won’t be that simple. The purchase price is conditional on the square meters that can be built and at the beginning it was set conditional on following the standards stipulated for the whole Prat del Roure. What is there or what was there, because now al common of Escaldes he has had doubts when granting the building permit because, politically, it has nothing to do with urban planning, he does not see it clearly. Although the excuse to blame the towers on the earlier corporations ended the moment construction began on the Hilton and the building that will be built next door in exchange for a good number of parking spaces that he negotiated with the developers. And in this he is now, agreeing the counterparties with Josep Batalla and Josep Maria Civil to defend the new building before the citizens. If there is anything objective to defend, given that the area is already urbanistically defined by the decisions of various municipal managers.
The attractions of the main festival have been installed on the affected land.
The attractions of the main festival have been installed on the affected land.
The two-way talks to close the counterparties are quite clear regarding the offer that the promoters have made to the corporation. On the table is the transfer of one plant that would be used for new communal buildings and, at the same time, to offset the loss of the current parking spaces, the package would include another space of parking under the building. A countermeasures operation that is quite similar to the one that closed both sides for the towers, one intended to host the Hiltonwhich promote the same promoters a Scalds and that the forecasts are that they will be finished in 2029.
From more to less
The buildability standards for this type of building required for Prat del Roure they have been governed by a staggered scale of the accepted volumetry, which went from more to less meters of occupied surface as the tower gains height up to the limit of twenty floors. That is to say, 100% of the area of the buildable space on the first two or three floors, 75% on the following until reaching half on the upper floors, which explains the image of many of the towers that have been climbed to the maximum allowed. Now this has changed with the modification of the town planning plan: from the ground floor to the top, all floors will occupy a maximum of 60% of the land where it will be built, without the building volume established in the previous assumption being modified on paper. Well, in short everything remains the same in terms of the number of square meters. At the expense of the common giving the license. The modification, however, does not affect licenses that have already been entered.
The promoters of the two towers, three when the one that is still being negotiated is approved, a Scalds they also promote constructions in other parishes. A Andorra la Vella they are building a hundred flats with 3 and 4 rooms in the area that delimits the Calle Prat de la Creu and thebus stationif a second initiative to the Comella road. And in the center ofEncampa block of flats with smaller dimensions than the previous two. Meanwhile, with these and other works, the commoners, all of them, are doing August from behind while publicly criticizing the country’s level of growth.
