“Plaza Sur” and the project for “Poligono Sur” in Seville

Public Administrations have specified several projects that are going to change the image of one zone which name in Seville is synonymous of social exclusion.

The fisrt one is refered to a urbanistic side, and the idea has been to destroyed the illegal yards that were built in the street without any control. In parallel, the Public Infrastructure Department of the Andalusian Government has developed and ambicious plan in which it’s planned to invest 45 million of Euro for the houses restoration, recovering the public spaces and normalyzing the illegal occupying.
The first difficult work was to create a census, and this is giving the first successes, so at Martinez Montañes Neighbourhood was checked how many legal or illegal occupancy or how many were empty of the total amount of this 1424 houses.

The same work is being repeated in other five districts, that with Martinez Montañes one, take part of “Poligono Sur”. Andalusian Government thinks that is possible to normalize at least 1000 property contracts in 2008. At the same time 1270 housed have started to be rebuilt, and 96 have been finished and they’re working with other 290, meanwhile the legal procedure has been started for other 692 in 40 blocks.

There’s also great projects for public zones. One the most important is “Plaza Sur”, designed by Pedro Garcia del Barrio, that will be placed in a non built plot of 46000 m2 for comercial, sport use. Bussiness , social and educational projects will be also developed there. The exterior covering will be a garden zone, and the building will combines glass and stone.
Other project will be the new Park of The Guadaíra, that will be defined along the “Su Eminencia” road, and it will be finished at the end of this year, with an investment of 16,8 M€, paid from the European Help for Development ( FEDER ), Guadalquivir River Management Department and the municipality of Seville. This new green park will join “Poligono Sur” with “The Beremejales” district, with a new free space of 63,5 hectares.