The granting of 120 tourist apartment licenses in a block of flats in Barcelona, on Tarragona street in the l'Eixample district, continues to generate reactions. Currently in Barcelona these types of licenses are not granted but a judge has agreed with the real estate company that owns the building after it processed them in 2019 when the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) annulled the Special Urban Plan for Tourist Accommodation, known as Peuat, which regulates these issues.
The Consistory then rejected the request of the real estate agency arguing that the sentence was not final and had appealed it to the Supreme Court. The property took the case through the courts and after years of litigation, a judge finally authorized allocating these 120 homes to tourist apartments.
Faced with this situation, the Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Janet Sanz, has asked the Generalitat for "regulatory changes" to be able to revoke this type of licence. "We can not do it. We have been working with the technical and legal teams to request legislative changes in order to have powers ”, she assured this Thursday in an interview in El món to Rac1. Sanz explained that she has sent a letter to the Government to call an urgent meeting and the commitment "is to see each other soon."
Asked if there are more cases of this type, she replied that they do not know, that it is possible, so a team "is reviewing" this information in all the districts of the city.
