This agreement allows progress in the urbanization of a plot of over 149,000 square meters, located south of the police station, between the Ronda Este, Río Sena street, and Vinamargo road. The contract, valued at approximately 472,000 euros with a 15-month execution period, aims to draft the necessary documentation to develop the area.
The municipal government spokesperson, Vicent Sales, emphasized that housing is one of the local executive's top priorities. The green light given this Thursday is based on the completed partial plan and will serve to draft the technical project and other reports for the sector's development.
The future residential sector will be integrated into the expansion of Censal Parc, an urban operation combining residential land, facilities, and the creation of the city's main urban forest. In addition to housing, the development includes provisions for educational and health facilities, as well as tertiary land and road connections to the ring road.
In detail, the urban model chosen by the City Council foresees a similar layout to the existing one in the Censal area, with residential buildings up to eight stories high and a more fragmented distribution of plots to generate new blocks and increase pedestrian routes. The residential area will occupy nearly 118,000 square meters of developable land, while tertiary use will reach 9,615 square meters, with space for future commercial implementations.
Furthermore, the planning includes the extension of currently unfinished streets, such as Río Pisuerga, Nervión, or Llobregat, to connect with the Ronda Este through tree-lined boulevards, landscaped areas, and rest areas. Among the main novelties of the design is the creation of a green strip next to the ring road to reduce traffic noise impact and facilitate a more progressive transition between consolidated land and the new development.
In context, the urban planning process for the SR Censal accelerated during 2025 with the approval of the environmental and territorial strategic report. This document endorsed the alternative selected by the council, considering it the option with a "more orderly and complete" growth, aligned with sustainability and energy efficiency criteria. Similarly, the reports proposed incorporating additional studies on landscape integration, rainwater reuse, and noise corrective measures.
On the other hand, the development is conceived as an operation linked to the future Censal Parc, the large urban park projected on another plot of over 122,000 square meters near the housing sector. Thus, in parallel with the progress of residential land, the City Council plans to start the already tendered works for the first phase of the forest in the last quarter of 2026 and inaugurate the initial stage by mid-2027. Now, with the tender for technical assistance for the SR Censal, the council once again aligns both developments to consolidate the city's expansion on its eastern side in the coming years.
