Reconverting Military Land Holdings in the Autonomous Region of Madrid and The Uses to Which These Have Been Put

Abstract

The paper explains that the Spanish Army have been the owners of vast real estate holdings for many years.
The vested capacity to obtain land and the need to do so have both led to the Armed Services’ being one of
the major national landowners.
Recent research has made patent both the extent and high utility rating of such land in the National Capital.
This concentration, though certainly owing much to acquisitions during the first thirty years of the last
century must also be understood as likewise to be the upshot of Franco’s regime when military housing was
endowed with a number of exclusive service urbanistic privileges.
The current process of reconverting military land holdings in Madrid got underway in 1977 as part as a
national endeavour. Although on a national level the alienating of ground given over to military purposes
has been going on for some while now, the process of Armed Services re-newel and the making of them
professional has accelerated the process post 1984.
The paper sets out to show the changes undergone in the real estate heritage of the Armed Forces by
cataloguing the location and characteristics of this in the late seventies from which material to then trace
the nature of the changes to this that have taken place along with those means by which such change was
accomplished.