Barcelona City Council applauds the new regulation announced this Tuesday by the Generalitat why the licenses tourist flat they will cease to be perpetual and will begin to require an urban planning license that will last for five years.
The Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning and Housing, Laia Bonet, has stated that the city government values the announcement made by the Government, which approved this Tuesday a decree law that must be endorsed by the Parliament, and has explained that the local Executive has been “previously consulted” about its content. The Catalan capital has 9,700 tourist apartments and the granting of more licenses is prohibited.
An “obvious” impact in the city
Bonet has considered it reasonable that the activity of the tourist flat is limited in time and has recalled what the government of Jaume Collboni has underlined, and which was previously denounced by Ada Colau: “The impact (of tourist apartments) in Barcelona is obvious and the city government has endorsed the demand that the homes serve as homes as much as possible.”
“From now on we will work to implement the new regulations, aware of the difficulty that the housing challenge represents,” added Bonet, who warned that Barcelona “cannot afford to have 10,000 homes that are not useful for the use of housing”.
From statement to license
The deputy mayor has considered it positive that an urban planning license must now be requested, until now a statement was enough, and has stressed that the decree law “goes in the right direction to restrict this activity.”
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In view of the new rule, Barcelona does not have an excess of tourist apartments, in the sense that the decree law provides a maximum of 10 homes of this type per 100 inhabitants. That proportion would allow up to 160,000 units in the Catalan capital. But since there is no lower limitation, A city council can reduce the existing park until it disappears, always respecting the deadlines, that is, with a period of five years ahead for the next review.
The predecessor
The councilor of Barcelona en Comú and Bonet’s predecessor as deputy mayor of Urban Planning in Colau’s time, Janet Sanz, has also celebrated the new norm and has called for reducing the number of tourist apartments in Barcelona. Sanz recalled that the Comuns proposed that tourist apartment licenses become temporary.