A new example of municipal opacity
Dear neighbors of Planes del Rei, Pratdip, Santa Marina and Sorts,
On Friday, July 22, 2022, the two councillors of Avança Pratdip received a summons for an extraordinary plenary session scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, with the following agenda:
- Urgency of the plenary session
- Closing and settlement of the 2021 budget (for information only)
- Extrajudicial recognition of credits
- Budget modification 1/2022 by transfer
- Budget modification 2/2022
- Procurement – tender for a footbridge
- Motion on allocating 25% to primary care
With this summons, the Municipal Council only sent us the documentation relating to items 4, 5 and 7, with no information whatsoever on the other matters.
The following Monday, just 24 hours before the session, we requested by email that the Town Hall send us the missing documents. We received no response. The two councillors of Avança Pratdip were therefore forced to attend this plenary session without having been able to calmly review the files in order to ask questions, debate, and vote with full knowledge of the issues.
A way of operating we consider undemocratic
This is not the first time the Town Hall has acted in this manner. We consider this way of proceeding to be totally undemocratic.
We nevertheless attended the session so that our presence would be recorded in the minutes. However, as soon as the first item on the agenda was addressed, we expressed our strongest disagreement and, as a sign of protest, we left the room without voting on any item.
Once again, the Municipal Council of Pratdip demonstrates that it does not treat the residents of Planas del Rey as full citizens, acting in an authoritarian and arbitrary manner.
Reparcelación revisited: broken promises
During the plenary session of July 1, 2022, the Municipal Council had led us to believe – Mr. José Pescador and myself – that, due to the opposition of property owners, it was abandoning the reparcelación project.
Yet on that same July 1, without informing us, and in a hurried manner (probably to justify itself before the judge handling the complaint filed by SOS Planas), the Council dismissed the allegations and approved the reparcelación. An attitude that amounts to a delaying tactic.
Next step for the Town Hall
The Municipal Council now intends to register this reparcelación project with the Falset land registry. But to do so, it needs the clerk’s approval… which it still does not have.
Our options
Three courses of action are open to us:
- Follow the progress of the lawsuit filed by SOS Planas, whose consequences will affect all property owners.
- File an appeal before the administrative court against the reparcelación.
➤ We will request a quote from Lawyer Barquin, who already handles our cases, to see if he can take it on and at what cost.
➤ If anyone nows another lawyer experienced in urban planning, we are open to consulting them. - Submit objections to the Falset land registry so that the clerk refuses the reparcelación due to formal defects.
Glòria Moreno
Municipal Councillor for Avança Pratdip
