In order to ensure the best possible fit for the diverse functional programmes within the urban environment, and to avoid any possible traumatic effects on the existing uses and functions, the 22@Barcelona project does not, from the outset, specify a detailed planning process for each part of the territory, but rather allows for the final image of the transformation to be progressively defined, in line with the specific features of each individual project and its surroundings.

The 22@Barcelona project defines six areas to be developed by public initiative, with a view to the configuration of new urban structures. These are to act as motors to the transformation of the district as a whole, and to enable the implantation of activities that will play a strategic role in establishing the new dynamics of the sector. The planning for the six areas (Llull Pujades Llevant, Perú-Pere IV, Audiovisual Campus, Parc Central, Eix Llacuna and Llull Pujades Ponent), in all representing 47% of the total area to be transformed, has already been approved and permits the planning of 925,482 m2 of land. The refurbishment of the territory not included in the aforementioned six areas may be led by either public or private initiative in the form of any one of a series of different plans: plans covering a whole city block, plans covering plots of over 2,000 m2, plans covering consolidated industrial buildings, plans covering buildings of interest and plans for consolidated housing fronts. Since the approval of the 22@Barcelona project, 55 private and 33 public plans have been approved, of which 6 are for facilities and 3 are for the redistribution of the land. 

In total, the plans approved will organize 2,445,393 m2 of ceiling, which accounts for more than 60% of the total foreseen.

To see the urban-planning plans that were approved in September 2008, click here.