TABLE OF CONTENTS
DIMENSIONING AND STRATEGIC POSITIONING OF THE NEW
INFRASTRUCTURE 006
01 Analysis of current supply at local level. 006
02 Analysis of liable future developments at local level. 019
03 Demand of industrial or comercial land in the coalfield area: future outlook and
dimensioning of the infrastructure . 041
04 Strategic positioning of the new infrastructure. 053
LOCATION ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION MODEL. 056
05 Choice of location and implementation model. 056
PRELIMINARY PLANNING 083
06 General layout. 083
07 Budget and management model. 110
The present technical study was assigned to TASO by the Regional Development and Innovation
Agency of Andalusia (IDEA). The objective was first to assess the demand and supply of industrial and
commercial land in the Riotinto coalfield area (Spain), so as to determine whether new developments
were relevant. From the conclusions of this exercise and in the case of a positive answer, the study
would additionally define the profile and basic features of a potential new business facility in the area.
To that end, this report starts with an analysis of current supply in the area and also the supply to be
foreseen in the short, medium and long terms. This information, combined with an objective prevision
of future demand of industrial and commercial land, is to allow to determine the relevance and the
dimensioning of a new business park in the Riotinto coalfield area. .
This first part of the report is followed by a spatial analysis intended to provide elements for the
location choice of the new infrastructure and to define the intervention framework. This model seeks
to define the spatial focus for implementation, rather than to identify with precision its geographic
coordinates, and to point out the crucial conditions for the viability of the project within the reference
area.
This type of analysis brings a change in the usual process of choice location among a large number of
practitioners, usually driven by the previous availability of specific land in the hands of promoters.
The final part of the study deals with the preliminary planning of the potential development, in line
with its strategic positioning. In the formulation of recommendations, particular attention has been paid
to the current trends in the field of industrial-urban planning, so as to point out intelligent solutions in
terms of mix of uses, plot configuration, mobility, integration in the environment and the landscape.
Most of all, the challenge is to adopt a sustainable progressive growth strategy, which should allow a
long-term life cycle. All these aspects will provide the new infrastructure with a sharp differentiation
from conventional developments that have to this day taken place in the reference area.
The combination of these analysis, considerations and recommendations makes this pre-investment
report innovative in the area context. It is the result of a deep reflection on the territorial model of the
coalfield area and on the nature of new industrial spaces, as the driver of the building of a new
“production model”.