- Last May, the Municipal Government approved the construction of 154 housing units in the Riberas area of Loiola. Convened by the Association of Neighbours of the Bank, some twenty neighbours met last week, concerned about the current situation. At the meeting “nobody found a positive side” to the project and it was decided to set up a working group to deal with it.
According to the representatives of the Neighbourhood Association, “there are many negative points that were highlighted at the meeting. The main reason for opposing the project is that it “does not meet the needs of the neighborhood”. According to the reports, “the City Hall skipped the planning that the neighborhood had to build houses that were not planned and boosting the plot that was planned for community equipment to the neighborhood”. In fact, cultural and health equipment has been demanded in the neighborhood for a long time, and the use of these spaces for housing will “mortgage” the future of the neighborhood. The call for the meeting was accompanied by the message “Ambulatory yes, torres no”.
The project, which provides for the construction of two giant towers next to the freeway, is "unacceptable" from the point of view of sound. In the noise measurements being carried out in the current building of the avenue of the Hermanos Otamendi have been located between 77db and 84db. In the new houses that want to build “even more noise, it is unacceptable”.
Eighteen people have joined this working group, which will meet for the first time next Monday.
