Meetings with the Mayor

Meeting with the Mayor in Poble-sec

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On Thursday 16 February, over 150 local residents filled the conference room at the Escola Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, eager to share their concerns with Ada Colau. They did so in forty direct, unfiltered interventions, as is usual in these Meetings with the Mayor. They spoke about improvements to public spaces, housing and interculturality, schools and Montjuïc, etc. Various organisations called for more venues for activities, while the Castellers del Poble-sec formed a human tower to underline the point!

Families from schools in Poble-sec and Sant Antoni called for new improvements to playgrounds and school surroundings and buildings. The Mayor defended the idea that the buildings should all be air-conditioned. Some children also took part in the session, while the youngest ones stayed in the play and care area provided in an adjoining room. Local residents who had been evicted or were having problems keeping their flats asked the Mayor to create more badly needed social housing in Poble-sec. The Mayor explained that there will be 500 affordable flats built when the current trade-fair site is redeveloped.

Poble-sec residents also spoke about Montjuïc, calling for more urban allotments, children‘s play areas in Plaça de Margarida Xirgu, neighbourhood uses for the new Institute of Sport, the renovation of the Casa de la Premsa building, and more. Various associations took the opportunity to call for more venues to hold neighbourhood activities, including the Joves Units del Poble-sec, CooperaSec and a platform of 10 organisation, who requested use of the establishment at Paral·lel 149 (owned by the Social Security Treasury and currently closed). The Castellers del Poble-sec requested a venue for their activity by forming a Pilar de Tres human tower (the maximum height permitted by the room). The Mayor and Councillor Marc Serra, along with the Sants-Montjuïc councillors, took note of all the demands and responded to them.

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