The Barcelona City Council has granted some 500 licenses to consolidate the terraces on the road that began to be installed two years ago due to covid restrictions. According to the Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Janet Sanz, a thousand requests have been received from the 1,500 terraces that were exceptionally enabled during the pandemic
This Thursday, the director of the Restoration Association, Roger Pallarols, attended the assembly process of a terrace platform on the road and visited an establishment that already has a platform since July. As explained by the Gremi, a hundred platforms have been installed and another 300 are expected to be built. Sanz has raised this figure to 500.
TERRACES ON THE SIDE OF THE SIDE AND ON THE ROAD
Currently, the Barcelona City Council is regularizing the terrace permits that were provisionally granted during the pandemic, both on the shoulder and on the road. When the terrace is on the road, the platforms approved by the consistory must be installed.
"The districts with the most authorized platforms are Eixample, Sants-Montjuic and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi. In the Eixample it must be borne in mind that the district concentrates 36% of all consolidation petitions. It is inevitable that, when dealing with absolute figures and not percentages, it is at the front", explains the Restoration Guild.
REGULATION ATTEMPTS
Last September, the Barcelona City Council began to suspend between 70 and 80% of the attempts to regularize the covid terraces. As explained by the Restoration Guild, the municipal government was denying "massively and without any justification". "Systematically denying and without justification will mean having deceived the sector," lamented Pallarols.
However, the Deputy Mayor for Urbanism, Janet Sanz, has defended in statements the journalists who have approved 50% of the applications, although she has warned that "there will be denials because there are many that do not meet the criteria of the ordinance". .
Sources: Metropoli
