Sanxenxo ratifies two strategic land purchases
- Sanxenxo’s council unanimously ratified two land deals on May 5 — one in Xuncablanca, Vilalonga, and another in Miraflores, Padriñán. - The big number is 80,000 square meters in Xuncablanca, tied to a Xunta-backed plan for about 350 homes, most protected housing. - Miraflores matters for the opposite reason — the town says buying it blocks roughly 400 homes and preserves a highly visible hillside.
Land policy is the story here — not construction yet, but control. Sanxenxo’s council used an urgent plenary session on Monday, May 5, to lock in two strategic land purchases that pull two very different sites out of the speculative market. One is meant to become a big public-housing project. The other is being bought so it does not get built up at all. (lavozdegalicia.es) ### What did the council actually approve? The council ratified the purchase of two urbanizable sectors: SU-27 in Xuncablanca, in Vilalonga/Altamira, and SU-11 in Miraflores, in Padriñán. The vote was unanimous, with support from PP, PSOE, and BNG. That matters because this was not just a zoning debate — it was a decision to spend public money so the municipality controls what happens next on both sites. (pontevedraviva.com) ### Why is Xuncablanca the bigger housing play? Xuncablanca is the large one — about 80,000 square meters. Sanxenxo had already moved in March to seek Xunta cooperation funds to buy it from Sareb for roughly €3.5 million. The original pitch was around 250 public(pontevedraviva.com)tion is being targeted for 2028. (pontevedraviva.com) ### So why buy Miraflores if it will not be built? Because the point is to stop a buildout, basically. Mayor Telmo Martín defended the Miraflores purchase on May 6 as a way to prevent a visually aggressive development on a very exposed hillside. The town’s argument is that the site could have ended up with around 400 homes and a major landscape impact, so municipal ownership is the cleanest way to shut that door. (lavozdegalicia.es) ### Why is Sareb in the middle of this? Both operations involve land tied to Sareb — Spain’s “bad bank,” created to absorb distressed real-estate assets after the financial crisis. That gives Sanxenxo a rare opening. Instead of (lavozdegalicia.es) the other. (farodevigo.es) ### Why does this matter in Sanxenxo specifically? Because Sanxenxo has the classic coastal-town problem — strong demand, expensive housing, and constant pressure to keep building in attractive locations. Public officials are trying to show they can do two things at once: add protected housing where infra(farodevigo.es) is a sharper intervention than just tweaking planning rules. (lavozdegalicia.es) ### Is the housing plan fully settled? Not quite. The direction is clear, but some figures have shifted as the plan has moved from municipal proposal to Xunta-backed development path. Early reporting centered on 250 homes; the newer joint plan points (lavozdegalicia.es)g. That last point is an inference from the sequence of approvals and project updates. (pontevedraviva.com) ### What happens next? For Xuncablanca, the next steps are administrative but important — complete the acquisition, urbanize the land, and then move to development, likely with Xunta involvement and outside builders or cooperatives. For Miraflores, the logic is almost the(pontevedraviva.com)ks of flats. (lavozdegalicia.es) ### Bottom line Sanxenxo just made two opposite bets with the same tool — buying land. In Xuncablanca, public ownership is supposed to unlock hundreds of below-market homes. In Miraflores, public ownership is supposed to keep hundreds of homes from ev(lavozdegalicia.es) it wants to be.
