Vicente Laso Baeza

Career

Member of the Legal Advisory team, 1992-1995: Municipal Office for the Revision of Madrid's General Urban Plan.

Urban Planning Lawyer. Managing Partner and Co-founder of Laso & Asociados, 1995-2025

Professional Memberships

Madrid Bar Association.

Personal

Law Degree . Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

Master's Degree in Territorial Policy and Urban Planning. Urban Management. Universidad Carlos III (UCIII).

Specialist in Registry Law, (College of Registrars, Madrid Bar Association, and Complutense University of Madrid)

Practice Areas

Managing partner of Laso & Asociados (L&A) with extensive experience advising leading Spanish and international companies, Administrations and Institutions.

Involved in main Planning Projects as a key legal agent in the Spanish urbanism.

Selected by the Best Lawyers Guide in the practices of land use and zoning law, Administrative Law and Planning, and recognized by Chambers and Partners for 19 consecutive years[1][3][5].

During the last years we highlight his crucial contribution and dedication as main legal advisor within the Technical Office (TO) constituted by the Sociedad Distrito Castellana Norte (DCN), today Crea Madrid Nuevo Norte (CreaMNN), main promoter of the star performance in Urban Planning Spanish "Madrid Nuevo Norte", in the actions aimed at approving the modification of the general plan in this matter, all in coordination with other multidisciplinary professional teams. Since the approval of the aforementioned modification, it provides legal advice in the drafting and processing of the legal instruments necessary for the beginning of the urban management of the different areas of "Madrid Nuevo Norte".

He has been involved in legal assistance to urban management procedures of maximum significance, assistance that has included the entire process of continuous legal advice from Compensation Boards and drafting of reparcellatory instruments until their registration in the Property Registry.

He has also been involved as a legal and urban planning legal advisor in the process of drafting and processing various special plans for photovoltaic energy infrastructure networks in different municipalities in the community of Madrid.

Regularly participates in the drafting of legal notes, reports, and opinions. Has contributed to the drafting of proposed urban planning legal texts, etc.

Finally, we highlight the legal direction of various judicial procedures of great significance in the field of urban planning law.

Publications

Books:

1."Urban planning from the perspective of the Land Registry. Comments on jurisprudence and doctrine of the General Directorate of Registries and Notaries" (2013) Colegio de Registradores de la Propiedad y Mercantiles de España.

2. "Urban development rights" (1995) Marcial Pons

Legal Journals: Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario (RCDI), Revista de Derecho Urbanístico y Medio Ambiente (RDU), Revista Oficial del Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (ROCAM), Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos) (RIEE), Observatorio Inmobiliario (OI):

1. "Segregation of land in consolidated urban areas for free transfer to public thoroughfares and registration of new construction works" (2024) RCDI

2. "Modification of the urban planning use of buildings and their registration in the Land Registry" (2024) RCDI

3. "Silent approval of land readjustment projects" (2024)

4. "Co-owners in the compensation system: adherence to the compensation board and subsequent treatment" (2023) RCDI

5. "Expropriation by operation of law: background, legal framework, jurisprudence, and relation to ordinary expropriation and unilateral registration transfers" (2023) RCDI

6. "Notification of interested parties in administrative litigation proceedings and the Land Registry in light of recent jurisprudence from the European Court of Human Rights and the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid" (2023) RCDI

7. "Ownership of land in the land readjustment process" (2022) RCDI

8. "Responsible declaration and new construction" (2022) RCDI

9. "Unnecessariness of submitting the compensation board's establishment deed for registering the readjustment project and modifying the readjustment title" (2022) RCDI

10. "Regulatory framework of land readjustment from the perspective of coordination between the Land Registry and the Cadastre" (2021) RCDI

11. "Determination of urban development rights for public domain lands included in urbanization actions" (2021) RCDI

12. "Protection measures for livestock trails and conflicting registrations" (2021) RCDI

13. "Nullity of urban planning and the registration of its final implementing acts" (2020) RCDI

14. "Municipal resolution for the registration of the urban planning status of old construction" (2020) RCDI

15. "Notes on the contribution of urban planning law to economic recovery in the face of COVID-19. "(2020) (OI)

16. "Involvement of the Public Prosecutor's Office in compulsory expropriation procedures regarding Circular 6/2019, of March 18, from the State Prosecutor's Office, and the resolution of April 11, 2019" (2019) RCDI

17. "The monetization of municipal transfer urban development rights." (2019) (OI)

18. "Expropriation procedure for setting fair compensation and double registration" (2019) RCDI

19 "Preventive annotation of filing an administrative appeal according to the Supreme Court ruling of September 20, 2018" (2019) RCDI

20. "The new regulation of urbanization stages according to Law 2/2018, of May 4, modifying Law 9/2001, of July 17, on Land in the Community of Madrid. " (2018) (OI)

21. "Registration certification of the identity of owners and holders of real rights in the modification of general urban planning" (2018) RCDI

22. "Mandatory transfers: special reference to their unilateral registration in favor of the Administration" (2018) RCDI

23. "Mandatory nature of registering the Compensation Project and enforceability of compliance by Compensation Boards" (2018) RCDI

24 "Considerations on the new regime of contentious-administrative appeal and urban planning." (2017) (OI)

25. "Renewal of the registration encumbrance for fulfilling urbanization obligations and third-party acquirers of readjusted plots not subrogated to pending charges" (2017) RCDI

26. "Reserves of development rights and their registration in the Land Registry" (2017) RCDI

27. "Actions on the urban environment in the Land and Urban Rehabilitation Law of October 30, 2015." (2016) (OI)

28. "Mandatory non-compliance with the minimum plot size as a case of singular linkage and not out-of-planning status" (2017) RCDI

29. "Transfer of urban development rights in systematic actions" (2016) RCDI

30. "Doctrine of the General Directorate regarding reversion in expropriation of lands owned by non-adhering members of a Compensation Board" (2016) RCDI

31. "Notification of registered owners in administrative litigation and preventive annotation of appeals linked to urban discipline proceedings" (2016) RCDI

32. "Urbanized land in areas of unconsolidated urban land. Overcoming the Supreme Court's obstructive prejudice in this regard." (2015) (OI)

33. "Complex urban management processes and their access to the Land Registry" (2015) RCDI

34. "Breach of the duty to develop as an urban infringement and requirements for its registration" (2015)

35. "Constitutionality of direct occupation regulation in regional legislation under Constitutional Court Ruling 183/2013, of October 23" (2014) RCDI

36. "Registration of final court judgments against non-notified registered owners and the position of the General Directorate and the Supreme Court" (2014) RCDI

37. "Urbanized land in areas of unconsolidated urban land. Overcoming the Supreme Court's obstructive prejudice in this regard." (2013) (OI)

38. "Registration in the Land Registry of final judgments annulling urban planning instruments" (2013) RCDI

39. "The interpretation of urban planning." (2013) (OI)

40. "New perspectives on building demolition due to license annulments under European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence and recent state/regional legislative reforms" (2013) RCDI

41. "Note on the Draft Law on urban rehabilitation, regeneration and renewal." (2013) (OI)

42. "Registration of urban development rights and alternatives in light of the June 14, 2011 Resolution" (2012) RCDI

43. "Administrative silence following Royal Decree-Law 8/2011 and subsequent revision of recent General Directorate jurisprudence" (2012) RCDI

44. "Limits and risks of the provision actions foreseen in the State Land Law." (2012) (OI)

45. "Absence of direct occupation in state legislation and its consequences on Land Registry registration" (2011) RCDI

46. "Hearing procedure and adoption of the preventive annotation agreement for urban discipline proceedings" (2010) RCDI

47. "New realities from urbanization processes and responses under current urban and registration law" (2010) RCDI

48. "Positive silence against the law following Law 4/1999, of January 13: A legal solution frustrated by the Supreme Court" (2009) RCDI

49. "Temporal regime of the marginal note for initiating land readjustment procedures" (2008) RCDI

50. "New legal regime for urban planning agreements and their access to the Land Registry" (2007) RCDI

51. "Clarifications on the registration of reversion in urban expropriations" (2007) RCDI

52. "Revisiting access to the Land Registry for administrative acts adopted by administrative silence" (2006) RCDI

53. "Situation of non-adhering owners regarding the preparation and registration of compensation projects" (2004) RCDI

54. "Positive administrative silence and registration of segregation: applicability to other urban acts with registration effects" (2003) RCDI

55. "Registered vs. unregistered ownership in readjustment procedures: Supreme Court Ruling of November 24, 2000" (2000) RDU

56. "New regime for compensation cases under Law 6/1998, of April 13" (1998) RDU

57. "New urban planning legislation and land market liberalization" (1997) RIEE

58. "Urban planning regulations: instrumental system. Guidelines for establishing land and building conditions" (1995) ROCAM

59. "Urban development rights" (1995) RDU

60. "Reservation of land for establishing or expanding municipal land patrimony" (1994) RDU