The SOS Baix Llobregat and l’Hospitalet platform, which brings together environmentalists in the area, has presented a total of 29 proposals to the PDUM, the urban planning that should replace the General Metropolitan Plan of 1976 in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. As they stated this Wednesday through a statement, they have raised their ideas through allegations.
According to them, the PDUM project has fallen “very short” and will not serve to “reverse aggressive urbanism.” “The PDUM must implement at the metropolitan level, without excuses, all the objectives of the Paris agreement on climate change, which is legally binding for the administration,” they have argued. However, according to this group of environmentalists, the project “is limited to making a cosmetic update of the 1976 PGM.”
The set of proposals from SOS Baix Llobregat and l’Hospitalet cover “from adaptation mechanisms to climate change to the maintenance of biodiversity and ecological connectors, passing through agricultural spaces, natural spaces and forest areas, the cycle of water, the energy transition, social housing, mobility, air quality and communication routes”.
On the other hand, the citizen platform asks that “urban plans that contradict the provisions of the metropolitan master plan be suspended until the final approval of the PDUM and the corresponding planning plan.”
The new metropolitan plan foresees 217,000 new homes by the year 2050. Among other plans, it establishes 15 new poles of attraction in the area and ten large metropolitan avenues have been drawn that link municipalities.
