The Law 7/2021 of Impulse for the sustainability of the Territory in Andalusia

new guidelines in Andalusian urbanism

Abstract

The Law 7/2021 of Impulse for the Sustainability of the Territory in Andalusia was born to adapt urban rules to the different reality in which the sector operates. Different from the one that motivated the appearance of its predecessor (LOUA of 2002), because the legal, political, economic and social environment in which it has to operate is also different. Changes are addressed in all branches of urbanistic law, with greater depth in some than in others. The planning changes its structure in terms of classes of instruments and procedures of elaboration and approval, which influences the different classes of lands, with its inevitable legal consequences. In terms of urban developement management, variations seem to be of lesser importance, but some important ones are among those addressedin the reform. As for the urbanistic discipline, and intervention in the use of the land, the new potentialities of residential uses in rustic land are noteworthy, other impulses are noted in the protection of rustic land, in terms of prescription of actions, codification of situations in which the responsible declaration and/or prior communication are new instruments that stimulate urban activity, … Many of these proposals must be subject to regulation implementing, necessary in certain aspects of the Law enacted to fulfill its objectives, because without this regulatory auction the new legislative proposal would not go beyond being a mere declaration of intent.