5 Ten-point plan for more sustainable urban planning

After compiling, studying and analysing the legislation enacted by the autonomous regions, its verification by those responsible, and in the light of the reports by outside experts, the team has identified a set of major topics that have been presented in the form of a ten-point plan for debate and discussion. These final reflections are included below with a view to putting forward a number of ideas to allow us to work towards achieving more sustainable urban planning. The current situation is a rather sensitive one, owing to the consequence of the improper use of planning and the difficulty of breaking with certain established routines, which in part seem to view urban planning with the almost discretionary assignation (in the best of cases) of the economic value of land. Achieving more sustainable cities and territories through the current urban planning mechanisms will necessary require some of the key components of the current system to be changed first.

• 1. Urban planning and environmental legislation
• 2. Content of property rights and urban planning
• 3. The administrative ambit of the plan
• 4. Links between spatial and urban planning
• 5. Need to change the characteristics of the urban plan
• 6. Monitoring the plan and territorial observatories
• 7. Public participation
• 8. Criteria for sustainability
• 9. Foster the efficient use of an oversized housing stock that generates unused homes and people without homes
• 10. The crisis of an unsustainable property model and the need to change it