242 Apuntes del Alcázar de Sevilla
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In June 1960, Alfonso Toro raises a new project to the Corpora-
tion entitled: “Plan for Internal Reform of Calle San Fernando”, in
which the pedestrian street is suppressed, considering as an alter-
native the creation of arcades in buildings and keeping in every-
thing else the same guidelines of the previous project. The said file,
like the previous two, remained without being processing.
The issue is paralyzed until activity is restarted in 1963. Meanwhile,
the “General Urban Development Plan of 1962”, which will pro-
duce a change in the intervention line of the street, is approved.
In 1963 takes place the opening of the street called Joaquin Romero
Murube, linking the Plaza del Triunfo with the Plaza de la Alianza,
according to the project drafted in the year 1943.
General Urban Development Plan of 1963.
The General Plan of 1963 was written by the Technical Administra-
tive Office of Urban Planning under the direction of the architect
Paul Arias.
This Plan maintains the proposed approach for the interior of the
Historic Center by the Plan of 1946, which abandoned the ap-
proach extensions, promoting the alignments only to avoid the
setbacks created criteria. It also maintains this approach for both
the main and secondary streets.
With the drafting of the new General Plan, the urban problems
of Calle San Fernando improve. National National Heritage cedes
the 14 m. strip of land of Jardines del Alcázar and the City Council
commits to build a new wall that will become a property of the
City Council. The projects drafted now insist on the same topics
than the previous ones with the only elimination of the pedestrian
street. The proposal for architecture is decided by the construction
of three blocks of five separate floors in parcels 13 and 29 by two-
floors buildings. In all of them, the existing order is maintained but
it is required to keep an arcade along the entire street with a height
of two floors for commercial use.
Prior Planning for General Urban Development Plan of
1987.
1966:
Alberto Balbontín and Pablo Arias drafted a project that was never
materialised.
1967:
In February 1967 the purchase of Alcázar lands annexed to Calle
San Fernando is fromalized, with an express obligation to avoid
easements of views and lights over the gardens.
The refusal to these projects will come from the General Director
of Architecture in July 1968, who ordered the abolition of licenses
and the drafting of a new project to prevent the construction of the
left bank to enable the vision of Jardines del Alcázar.
Concurrently, in April 1968, following the approval by PRICA, it is
allowed the suitability for building plots along with the band of 14 m.
of Jardines del Alcázar ceded by the National Heritage. At the same
time, Calle San Fernando is designated as urban set of special study.
1972 Planning Project for Calle San Fernando.
In 1972, the “ Planning Project for Calle San Fernando” is drafted by
architect Rafael Manzano, in collaboration with the Technical Office
of Planning. In this work the idea of delaying the fence of the sidewalk
on the right is abandoned, solving road problems through two under-
passes: one between Avenida de Carlos V and Calle San Fernando,
under Avenida Menendez Pelayo, and the other, between Calle San
Fernando and General Sanjurjo, under Puerta de Jerez. However, the
greatest effort will focus on the management of the left bank and the
formalization of its architecture. The Plan proposes to maintain the
alignment of the four houses in the end, forcing a setback of 4.50 m.
to the buildings in the central area. At the rear area, in first floor, con-
structions can be attached to the wall, while upper floors will be sepa-
rated by 4 m. The desire of the project designer to achieve a higher
aesthetic quality reconstruction, according to the place, leads him to
give a great importance to the composition of the facades. In the draw-
ing of the whole, the introduction of an arcaded ground floor, three
upper floors and a low covered attic is observed, with a total of 13.50
m for the recessed central building and 12.50 for the sides, allowing in
this height four floors and an attic under sloping roof with lighting
through mansards. The project included a garage for every plot, with
a common right of way between them, with access from Jardines de
Catalina de Ribera and exit through Puerta de Jerez. Since the imple-
mentation of this Plan was incomplete, this project proved unfeasible
for those buildings that had already built their garages, consequently
opening access gates from the street in each of the estates. This pro-
ject was very controversial as theOfficial Association of Architects, the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Local Commission for Historical
and Artistic Heritage presented allegations against it. HOwever, it was
initially approved by the plenary on May 1973.
Modification of PRICA in 1981
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The modified PRICA 1981, was developed by the first democratic
corporation.
In 1982 the modification of PRICA is approved, planning that fo-
cuses on the strict protection of the village and urban spaces.
With regard to Calle San Fernando, the new plan restores the origi-
nal alignment and provides protective measures to certain build-
ings depending on their architectural value, limiting the works
that can be performed in them depending on the degree of cata-
loguing. New works are imposed not to exceed three floors with a
small attic and approach less of seven meters to Jardines del Alca-
zar. The result of this plan is the restoration of estates No. 1, 3, 17
and 41 and the new construction of No. 13. The implementation
of this proposal partially achieved its goal: to paralyze the renewal
process but, due to the lack of measures that would encourage and
facilitate its conservation, it was impossible to save from extinction
many of the buildings.
The delimitation of the district of Santa Cruz contemplated here-
in, in chapter IV, includes Calle Judería and Patio de Banderas and
excludes the rest of the current sector 6, setting the particular con-
ditions and ordinances to the said district.
The approval in 1983 of the Royal Decree 2329 on the Restoration
of Urban and Residential Heritage was necessary to have a legal
instrument to support the conservation of the traditional network
against the driving speculative attitudes of demolition.
