Outskirts

MÉS denounces that the protection plan for Sineu maintains tourist uses in the historic center

The eco-sovereignists denounce contradictions between the memory and the regulations of the protection plan and propose to safeguard the residential use of the old town's dwellings

Aerial view of the historic center of Sineu.
Joan Socies
Upd. 7
1 min

SineuMÉS per Sineu has presented amendments to the Protection Plan for the historic complex due to "significant errors and contradictions" in tourist use. The municipal group MÉS per Sineu has announced that it will submit objections to the draft of the special Plan for the protection of the historic complex, after detecting what they consider serious inconsistencies between the explanatory report of the project and the regulations that will finally be applied.

The eco-sovereignist party criticizes that the municipal government of the Popular Party has pushed forward this document "hastily and without real participation" from the opposition and residents. According to MÉS, this lack of consensus has resulted in a confusing text: while the report's memory emphatically assures that tourist use will be prohibited within the historic center, the text of the Regulations maintains it as permitted in the main areas of the old town.

"This is not a misplaced comma. It is a contradiction that could have real consequences on future licenses and building transformations," warn opposition sources, in addition to regretting that, after four years of institutional work, the text generates "more doubts than guarantees."

Given this situation, the party will propose a key modification: to safeguard the preferential nature of residential use throughout the historic center. The intention of the proposal is that any change of use affecting an existing dwelling must strictly and expressly justify that it does not harm neighborhood life or the preservation of the housing function.

The objective of the objections, they assure, is not to slow down the rehabilitation of Sineu's heritage, but to prevent the protection process from translating into a substitution of habitual dwellings for tourist places.

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