FCC Construcción has started the urbanisation project for La Solana, the development of more than one million square metres of surface area located between the radial 2 and the municipality of Alcobendas, to the west of Encinar de los Reyes. 

This project will be a real example and a benchmark when it comes to tackling the housing problem, and it involves taking into account factors such as the generation of adequate public spaces and real estate developments that meet the expectations of quality of life demanded by society.

The project, which will be financed and executed by the local compensation board with the supervision of Madrid City Council, organises the uses and buildings in such a way that the urban landscape is integrated with the natural environment in a respectful and productive relationship for both. 292,000 m² of green areas are planned, the Valdebebas stream and its watercourses will be preserved, the existing Valdebebas-Felipe VI forest park will be extended and completed, and a new route will be designed for the bull trail, the old livestock route that will be extended from 18,300 m² to 27, 000 m². In addition, the old Solana viewpoint, a high point located in a very central position, will be recovered and turned into a meeting space, with vegetation and trees designed to emphasise its symbolic value.

The entire intervention has as its central axis the public space, a nexus of social and cultural relations. For this reason, the project promotes pedestrian and bicycle mobility and aims to facilitate access to public transport, reduce private motorised traffic in internal movements and avoid through traffic.
La Solana was farmland, part of a large expanse of arable fields located within easy reach of the nearby population centres, but today it is a vacant space of 109 hectares with no agricultural use between the urbanised area of La Moraleja and the Valdebebas-Felipe VI forest park, which this project aims to recover and enhance.

Almost 1,400 new homes, 46% of them subsidised

The area will have 1,393 homes, including single-family and collective housing, of which 637 (46%) will have some kind of subsidised housing. Of these, the Town Council will promote 422. As for commercial activity, it will be presented in two formats: local shops on the ground floors of residential buildings located around the central axis and two plots for exclusive commercial use, one in the centre with a buildable area of 5,000 m² and another, to the west, with 3,000 m².

On the other hand, the project allocates 46,500 m² to public networks of collective services (facilities, public services and sports), 141,500 m² to local roads and 45,000 m² to main public roads. This is complemented by a reserve of 104,000 m2 of land for private facilities to serve the residents of Madrid.