Collboni proposes to recover 30 new interiors of the block in Barcelona

The first deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council, Jaume Collboni, has taken another step today in his strategy of distancing himself from some of the policies promoted by his government partner, Mayor Ada Colau.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 November 2022 Wednesday 06:34
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Collboni proposes to recover 30 new interiors of the block in Barcelona

The first deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council, Jaume Collboni, has taken another step today in his strategy of distancing himself from some of the policies promoted by his government partner, Mayor Ada Colau. The leader of the PSC has proposed, at the breakfast organized by the New Economy Forum, recovering thirty block interiors of the Eixample before 2030 to gain urban green “without having to cut streets”.

Collboni has made calculations and has specified that these 30 new interior gardens would mean conquering 63,000 square meters of urban green, the equivalent of seven football fields, and recovering the original idea of ​​Ildefons Cerdà's Eixample.

The PSC candidate for mayor of Barcelona in the May 2023 elections has been in favor of reducing pollution in the Eixample, but has warned that the next term must serve to "stop and digest" the actions carried out recently in the district with the most economic activity in Barcelona, ​​in reference, among other projects, to the new green axes.

Collboni has specified that he is not against the concept of superblocks but has hinted that he does not share the concrete realization of some projects linked to them, projects that were not part of the electoral program of the PSC.

The first deputy mayor has not missed the opportunity to ask the ERC and Junts groups in the City Council to support the municipal budgets for 2023 since he considers that it would be a serious mistake to keep in the drawer some accounts that increase by 400 million the of 2022.

The act led by Jaume Collboni had a large representation of socialist politicians, among them the former mayors of Barcelona Joan Clos and Narcís Serra, the former president of the Generalitat José Montilla, and the president of the Diputación de Barcelona and mayoress of l'Hospitalet from Llobregat, Núria Marín.

Among the attendees was also a more than likely rival of Jaume Collboni in the next municipal elections, the former convergent mayor Xavier Trias, with whom the socialist candidate maintains an excellent relationship.