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The Town Hall of San Sebastian already owns the land of the Loiola barracks

The City Council will pay EUR 73 million to the Spanish Government for this land, where it is planned to build 1,700 official housing units, which will now have a period of four years to leave the area.


SAN SEBASTIÁN, 23/07/2025.- El alcalde de San Sebastián, Eneko Goia (i), y la directorageneral del Instituto de Vivienda, Infraestructura y Equipamiento de la Defensa, María Ángeles Cano (2i), han firmado este miércoles las escrituras de compraventa de los cuarteles de Lolola, que permitirá poner en marcha en los hasta ahora terrenos militares una de las operaciones urbanísticas más importantes de la ciudad de los próximos años. EFE/Javier Etxezarreta

The Mayor of San Sebastian, Eneko Goia, and the Director General of the Institute for Housing, Infrastructure and Defence Equipment, Maria Ángeles Cano, at the time of signature

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The parcels of the Loiola military barracks have been handed over to the City Council of San Sebastián on Wednesday. Although the process has been delayed by a month, the City Council and the Spanish Government's Ministry of Defence have finally signed the sales deeds on Wednesday. The idea is to create a new urban environment with 1,700 sheltered homes . 

TheMayor of Donostia-San Sebastián, Eneko Goia , and the managing director of the Institute of Housing, Infrastructure and Defence Equipment (INVIED), Maria Angeles Cano, have signed before a notary the purchase of the land, for which the City Council has paid 73.3 million euros to the Defense, thus acquiring 17 hectares of land.

Now, within four years, the City of San Sebastian will begin to transform the area with the aim of creating a new urban development in which 1,700 new housing units are planned, "all protected and all for the Donostiarras", so the military will have a maximum of four years to leave Loiola. 

Goia has stressed that this signature has put an end to the process "which has not been easy" but which was in San Sebastian "with a wish".  

The next step will be to approve the new planning and design of the new neighborhood. Alkate has said that "the accountant is going to go to zero today" because this is "the time to seek interinstitutional cooperation to promote the construction of protected housing in that area and to design what we are going to do and what equipment we are going to have in that area."