The final approval for the urban plan unlocks the project and will see the site become available for the Government of Catalonia to build the new all-through school there. The construction of the new centre is a key element in the set of facilities at Can Batlló and corresponds to a long-standing demand from local people in the neighbourhood of La Bordeta and the schoolchildren’s families.

The school is currently located in C/ Sagunt, in Sants, and has been waiting for new premises for some years to give continuity for students at the same centre, from infant education through to secondary schooling. This all-though school will also take students from other centres in the district, which needs more secondary school places. Sants-Montjuïc is actually the only district in Barcelona which has seen enrolments rise in all stages of education this year.

The urban plan regulates the characteristics of the future facility, which includes Block 19 at Can Batlló, offering 3,220 square metres of space, and its surroundings, where a new building of 3,729 square metres will also need to be built. The premises are delimited by C/ Parcerisa, to the south-east, and by public space inside the industrial complex to the north and the east, where work is currently under way on the future park.

Compared to the initial project, the special plan approved today includes some minor changes in height, with amendments to the mobility study and the facilities in the modification to the general metropolitan plan approved in December. Now the plan has been approved, the site will be made available to the Barcelona Education Consortium through an agreement to be signed by the City Council, the Government of Catalonia and the Consortium. The final project for the all-through school is currently being drafted by the Consortium.