A multidisciplinary team of professionals
building the Madrid of the future
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
OFFICE
The New Developments Office of the Madrid City Council is a virtual space offering official and verified information on the urban‑development areas currently under execution. Its goal is to keep citizens, property owners and interested parties informed about the status and progress of each project from its initial phases to full completion, with content that is accessible and easy to understand.
Urban developments are carried out progressively, and this office allows users to know the phase and stage of each area, facilitating continuous monitoring regardless of their level of technical knowledge.
The information will be updated periodically as the different phases of each project progress, providing access to relevant technical and administrative documentation and contact with the Urban Development Collaboration Entities. In addition, the City Council offers a direct contact channel for inquiries.
Methodology
The Government Area for Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility works through an interdisciplinary and collaborative model aimed at ensuring efficiency, technical consistency and legal certainty in the processing of Madrid’s new neighbourhoods.
For each new neighbourhood, a specific team is formed, made up of architects, engineers, legal experts, draftsmen and administrative technicians, who work in coordination under the corresponding technical and legal direction. This method promotes institutional cooperation and the early resolution of issues, thanks to direct communication with the Compensation Boards and their technical teams.
In addition, the joint review of documents and the preparation of integrated reports is promoted, ensuring a shared technical, legal and economic perspective that guarantees correct planning execution and compliance with current urban regulations.
This methodology fosters citizen engagement in this portfolio of projects, ensuring public participation throughout their implementation. In this way, we are helping to make Madrid a more open, collaborative, and transformative city.
We build the city with its residents in mind, creating spaces that connect people and communities
PHASES IN THE EXECUTION OF A NEW neighborhood
The urban planning process is carried out through a series of interconnected phases that make it possible to transform the territory, allowing an area to become a habitable, well‑organized place with services. To achieve this, four main phases are followed:
Planning. This is the stage in which the city model is designed: where housing, green areas, streets, commercial uses and public facilities will be located.
Urban Management. This phase determines how what has been planned will be implemented. It involves coordinating property owners, distributing responsibilities and organising the execution of the actions so that everything progresses in an orderly manner.
Urbanisation. This phase transforms the land into a space ready to be used. Streets, pavements, water supply networks, electricity, sanitation systems and public spaces are built.
Building Construction. This is the most visible phase: the construction of the buildings envisaged in the planning stage—whether housing, commercial premises or public facilities—giving shape to the city.
Planning
- Initial approval
- Final approval
- Publication in the BOCM
Management
We convert land into buildable plots
- Formalisation of the initiative
- Statutes and Operating Bases: Final approval
- Constitution of the Compensation Board: Municipal approval
- Expropriation of non‑adherents: Publication of approval of the Expropriation Project
- Reparcelling: Submission to Public Information
- Reparcelling: Final approval of the Reparcelling Project
- Reparcelling: Registration in the Land Registry
Urbanisation
We design the city’s new neighbourhoods
- Urbanisation Project: Final approval
- Urbanisation Project: Start of urbanisation works
- Urbanisation Project: Simultaneity with Building Licences
- Urbanisation Project: Partial handover
- Urbanisation Project: Final handover
Building
- Licences and Responsible Declarations
PROFESSIONAL TEAMS
Engineers
Infrastructure and sustainable mobility
Geographers
Spatial analysis and environmental diagnosis
Architectural Technicians
Urban design and spatial planning
Architects
Urban design and spatial planning
Draftsmen
Graphic definition of the representation of territory
Administrative staff
Organization and management of information
Legal experts
Study, analysis and application of the regulations
GENERAL DIRECTORATE
OF URBAN MANAGEMENT
Once the planning phase is completed, the General Directorate of Urban Management of the Madrid City Council is responsible for organising, programming, directing and controlling the actions necessary for land transformation. Its functions include managing integrated and isolated actions in neighbourhoods, the Municipal Land Heritage, expropriations and valuations, and the management of authorising titles for subdivision, amalgamation and segregation.
All these actions will allow the authorised construction of buildings on the managed land after or during the urbanisation phase, according to its permitted use.