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The hive floors have encountered the first obstacle just a few days after their landing in the capital through the purchase of land in Vallecas: the Madrid City Council.

The Consistory closed on Thursday clearly the door to this mode of housing offered by the company Haibu in the capital, as its counterpart in Barcelona had already done. "Today there is no place in residential planning for Madrid," said Urban Development Delegate Mariano Fuentes at the press conference following the Governing Board.

"You can not allow what is outside the legal system", sources from this department consulted by THE WORLD insist on the rooms of 1.20 meters high and wide and 2.20 meters deep that Haibu intends to install in a ship industrial that exceeds 400 square meters in Vallecas.

These infraviviendas "would be implemented in industrial buildings" , argued Fuentes, who points out that precisely for this reason "today they have no place in the general urban planning plan (PGOU) and the City Council will not give license" for their building.

This concept of beehive floors consists of the use of spaces destined to large industrial areas where common rooms are enabled for all the inhabitants that serve as kitchen, dining room or living room, and a space is left to place the rooms in which a person medium height can not even stand upright.

The price of these spaces is around 200 euros per month per person and it is not allowed to have heating inside as a "security measure", they point out from the company that manages this model.

With this warning that was launched this Thursday from the municipal corporation headed by José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the City Council of the capital is equated with that of the other large city nationwide, Barcelona, ​​whose Consistory has entered into an open war against this type of housing

The municipal government of Ada Colau even sealed at the end of October a place in the district of the Bordeta , in the district of Sants-Montjuïc, where Haibu was beginning to develop construction works due to “the illegality of this type of under-housing, which does not comply with current housing legislation ».

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