Persán Expansion Enables 1,499 Homes in Palmete

Seville’s urban planning office has opened public review of an advance planning document for Palmete that lays out room for 1,499 homes on land between San José de Palmete and Padre Pío. The proposal, published by the Gerencia de Urbanismo y Medio Ambiente, says 1,294 of those homes would be protected housing. The land is being promoted through a partial-plan advance presented by the Agencia de Vivienda y Rehabilitación de Andalucía, or AVRA, which is part of the Andalusian regional government. Public review is open until June 19, according to the municipal planning notice. ### Why is a housing plan in Palmete tied to Persán? A 2019 modification of Seville’s general urban plan cleared the way for Persán to expand its industrial facilities in Palmete, and the city said that operation also reshaped land uses and public facilities in the area. The municipal planning office described that change as necessary to allow the company’s expansion while also creating new land for neighborhood equipment. (urbanismosevilla.org) A 2026 report on the current housing proposal says that Persán’s expansion now allows the Palmete sectors to be planned for 1,499 homes. That link matters because the current residential scheme sits within a wider urban reordering that has been moving through city planning channels for years. (urbanismosevilla.org) ### What exactly is being planned on these plots? The Ayuntamiento de Sevilla says the joint partial plan for the sectors SUS-DCA-01 Palmete and SUNC ARI-DCA-05 Colegio San José de Palmete would devote more than 53% of the total surface to public amenities. The planning file lists 23,307 square meters of general open space and 11,315 square meters of general road system, with the remainder distributed among local open space and local facilities. (manueljesusflorencio.com) The same municipal document says residential use would occupy 19.33% of the land, while tertiary use would take 3.75%. In practical terms, that means the proposal is not only a housing layout but also a package of streets, green areas and equipment intended to connect existing neighborhoods around the site. (urbanismosevilla.org) ### Who is behind the project, and how much land do they control? Rocío Díaz, Andalusia’s regional minister for public works, territorial planning and housing, said on Feb. 24 that her department had delivered the advance partial plan to Seville City Hall to start municipal processing. The regional government said the main parcel, between Palmete and Padre Pío, covers about 250,000 square meters. (urbanismosevilla.org) The Junta de Andalucía said 83.56% of that main parcel belongs to the regional government through AVRA. The remaining ownership is held by the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad, the Compañía de las Hermanas de la Cruz, the Archdiocese of Seville and the Comunidad de Regantes del Valle Inferior del Guadalquivir, according to the regional government’s account of the project. (europapress.es) ### How much of this is protected housing? The headline number is 1,294 protected homes out of 1,499 total. The Junta described that in February as close to 90% of the planned homes, and the city planning file repeats the 1,294 figure in the current public-review stage. (europapress.es) The remaining 205 homes are market-rate, according to the May planning report on the scheme. That split has made the project part of the regional government’s housing push in Seville, with Díaz saying in February that it showed the government’s effort to make land available for protected housing. (europapress.es) ### What happens next in the planning process? June 19 is the deadline now attached to the public-information phase for the advance partial plan, according to the planning notice cited in the May report. After that, the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla must continue the environmental and urban-planning processing needed before any full development stage can move ahead. (manueljesusflorencio.com) Feb. 24 was the date the Junta said it formally handed the advance document to City Hall, and that filing started the municipal phase. The next named participants are AVRA, as promoter, and Seville’s urban planning office, which is handling the review and subsequent processing. (juntadeandalucia.es) (manueljesusflorencio.com)