Practice area

Planning

“Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has a strong multidisciplinary team of lawyers who are very efficient with quick answers and tackle issues as fast as they can.”

Chambers & Partners Europe

The Planning Area is composed of urbanist lawyers located in Bilbao, Valencia, Barcelona, Lisbon, and Madrid who practice law in all municipalities of the Iberian Peninsula.

Our urbanist lawyers have extensive experience in legal and territorial urban planning advice. The team includes not only lawyers and professors but also an urban planning architect expert; this allows us to provide not only purely legal advice but also a very technical vision and approach to our urban planning advice, as demanded by this specialization.

We advise Public Administrations and private companies in the preparation of planning and urban execution instruments, in monitoring their processing until their final approval, and in the investigation and documentary analysis, issuance of reports, opinions, and expert opinions as needed. All of this is done in accordance with the different land and sectoral legislations (environmental, transportation, water, cultural heritage, etc.) that are applicable.

The diversity of the work covers all stages of the urban planning process: from its beginning, that is, from the idea of undertaking an urban transformation (the analysis of its opportunity and viability or the drafting of a viability diagnosis) and preliminary actions with the Administration, to the drafting of urban planning, management, and execution instruments, and expropriations.

Our services include:

Of industrial, commercial, residential, or any other use facilities that may have become non-compliant or outside regulations as a result of the revision of urban planning instruments or the modification of sectoral regulations. In general, enhancing real estate assets through their adaptation or urban transformation.

General plans, zoning plans, partial plans, detail studies, special infrastructure plans, and interior reform plans.

Subdivision, compensation, cooperation, and forced expropriation projects.

Including the setting of valuation criteria

Of compensation boards, management committees, urban developer, conservation entities, and other related entities.

Preparation of reports and legal opinions of all kinds regarding urban issues, including building calculations and utilization

Activity, and first occupancy and operation licenses, as well as commercial and tourist licenses and authorizations on non-urbanizable land

Construction contracts (civil works and engineering), FIDIC contracts, turnkey construction and rehabilitation contracts, project management and control contracts, security contracts, and architectural design contracts.

Especially in the renewable energy sector.

Sanctions, expropriations, authorizations, licenses, closure orders, and relations with urban planning and management instruments

 

Meet the team

Acknowledgements

We are recognised nationally and internationally for our legal services, management, client service, innovation and technical excellence.

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Chambers & Partners Europe 2024. Planning – Portugal
Chambers & Partners Europe 2024. Planning – Portugal
“Sofia has a great ability to foresee problems and find a way to resolve situations. She is very clear in her answers and approaches, which helps us a lot. Currently, when we have any problems in this area, we turn to her services.”
Legal 500 2024. Planning Law – Portugal
Legal 500 2024. Planning Law – Portugal
“Sofia Rodrigues Nunes is always a pleasure to work with. She is committed, dedicated, and has vast experience in the areas of ​urban planning and spatial planning.”
Chambers & Partners, Europe 2024 – Planning
Chambers & Partners, Europe 2024 – Planning
“Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has a strong multidisciplinary team of lawyers who are very efficient with quick answers and tackle issues as fast as they can.”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2024. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2024. Planning
“José Manuel Palau has a lot of experience and a very important vision of urbanism.”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2024. Planning – Portugal
Chambers & Partners Europe 2024. Planning – Portugal
“Sofia Rodrigues Nunes is an excellent professional, with a great sense of responsibility. She is very organised and with a lot of experience in urbanism, enabling her to always clarify any issues raised by the clients.”
Legal 500 2024. Planning – Portugal
Legal 500 2024. Planning – Portugal
“Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has vast experience in urban planning and spatial planning projects. They are dedicated to each project, continuously monitoring all phases.”
The Legal 500 2023. Planning Law – Portugal
The Legal 500 2023. Planning Law – Portugal
“I highlight Sofia Rodrigues Nunes.”
Chambers and Partners Europe 2023 – Planning Law – Portugal
Chambers and Partners Europe 2023 – Planning Law – Portugal
“Sofia Rodrigues Nunes shows very significant knowledge in her area of work, maintains a strong sense of independence assessing and evaluating issues that are submitted to her.”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2023. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2023. Planning
“Sofia Rodrigues Nunes shows very significant knowledge in her area of work, maintains a strong sense of independence assessing and evaluating issues that are submitted to her.”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2023. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2023. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning
“Their advice is quick and above all very clear”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning
“For us it is essential that the person who has most experience in these urban planning processes can assist us in meetings with the different public bodies”
The Legal 500 2022. Planning – Portugal
The Legal 500 2022. Planning – Portugal
«We highlight Sofia Nunes and José Manuel Silva Nunes. The qualities that we highlight in both are precisely their availability, the speed in responding to the requests we make to them, as well as their respective effectiveness.»
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning – Portugal
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning – Portugal
“I want to emphasise her dedication and experience; she is committed to finding the best solutions for all challenges that arise”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Planning
“knowledge of the subject matter and of the public authorities.”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Real Estate
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Real Estate
«one source highlihts “the vast knowledge that he has in real estate matters”»
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Real Estate
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Real Estate
“He is very business-oriented”
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Real Estate
Chambers & Partners Europe 2022. Real Estate
«Clients praise Jaime Diaz de Bustamante’s “negotiation skills and his imagination when unblocking points of disagreement”»
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