Neighborhood mobilization in the Bordeta neighborhood to preserve gardens conquered during the Franco regime.
Nearly a hundred people participated yesterday in a protest planted in order to preserve a small green area of just 350 square meters located next to the Can Batlló factory site, on Mossèn Amadeu Oller street, a place with a strong weight in the imagination of many residents on this side of the Sants-Montjuïc district as it was the fruit and also the agitator of the neighborhood battles fought during the Franco regime, in the 60s, in favor of much more decent neighborhoods.
Then the people got the authorities to dedicate this corner to neighborhood uses, and that victory encouraged them to intensify many other demands of the moment. Hence, citizen dedication still endures. Many surrounding residents understand that that victory did not expire, that the gardens belong to the people of the neighborhood. “It cannot be that what Bordeta gained during the dictatorship she loses during democracy.”
On the citizen platform Salvem el carrer Mossèn Amadeu Oller they detail that the urban transformation plan for Can Batlló contemplates the construction of a cooperative housing building, and that this construction will mean eliminating this green area and its banks, which are very precious, and also reduce the width of Mossèn Amadeu Oller Street itself by a few meters.
In this citizen platform they emphasize that they are not opposed to the construction of the cooperative housing building, in any way, but they understand that the City Council can reform the urban plan of the area or take the measure it deems appropriate in order to make this much more friendly. construction, that in the end the resulting public space is not so constricted, does not seem so gray and oppressive.
“Is this why so many residents of the neighborhood put up with so much smoke, noise and bad smells for so many years?” they ask. The tug of war with the City Council has been going on for months, but he still hasn't gotten anywhere. The neighbors, however, believe that they still have room, that the work on the new property will not start at least until the end of the year, when they still have time.
