An urban project inherited from the extinct developer Vallhermoso has once again come to light promoted by Sareb, which has alarmed the residents of the Canyet neighborhood in Badalona. The Partial Plan on the Torrent de la Carabassa seriously endangers one of the last large green spaces available to the city, for which reason those affected have launched a campaign to paralyze its approval.
The project, which dates back to the 1980s and was definitively halted in 2007, has been revived by Sareb and provides for the construction of a 20-metre-wide road crossing an entire hill declared of natural interest, with geological and heritage expectations. The work, according to ecologists, would seriously damage the Iberian settlement of Turó d'en Boscà, of which only 20% has been excavated.
In addition to the road, the project includes the construction of 86 luxury homes in the heart of the green lungs of Canyet, on its border with the Bonavista neighborhood, an area that the residents claim can be preserved as a natural park. In it there are centuries-old oak and carob trees of high ecological value, which provide shelter for a great diversity of fauna.
In November 2022, the governing board of the Badalona City Council (PSC, ERC, ECP and JxCat), according to the residents, initially approved the urbanization project, which activated all the alarms of the local entities that have presented allegations to what which they consider a serious ecological attack sponsored by the real estate speculation of the bad bank. The current government of the PP has assured that it will study the project in depth and will meet with those affected.
The residents ask that the project be reformulated based on the metropolitan general plan of the seventies, whose priorities have changed. Residents of the area argue that Coll de Miravitges and Torrent de la Carbassa is a forest area of high heritage value that must be subject to preservation and must be adapted to the reality of the 21st century.
The planning, at the discretion of the residents, also violates the heritage regulations because it obviates the archaeological interest of the location of the Iberian settlement of Can Baitolo and the environmental legal system that promotes the fight against climate change. In addition, the urban project would seriously affect six underground water mines that cross the subsoil of the Canyet neighborhood.
