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The citizen group considers that the City of Murcia has turned a deaf ear to the allegations presented by various formative associations of the Platform, despite being the promoter of the Sectorial Council of Cultural Heritage, whose constitution announces the City Council after two years of delay .

The Platform for the Defense of the Cultural Heritage of Murcia shows its disappointment at the approval of the regulation that will be the Sectorial Council of Cultural Heritage of the municipality of Murcia without having admitted the allegations submitted for improvement.

This advisory body, in which associations, experts, institutions and other representative agents will cooperate with the City Council in the protection and defense of cultural heritage, is born thus ignoring the social participation that theoretically bases its own creation, being even more flagrant in the case of the Platform, being the original promoter of the Council.

The idea of ​​the same started in 2015, as a way to improve the poor application by the City Council of the different municipal regulations such as PECHA or the PGOU-catalog, understanding that through an expert reading of said regulations and participation social interventions could be more respectful of our heritage, decimated by successive demolitions of protected buildings (such as the Ponce palace), arbitrary modifications in the conditions of action (such as the properties of the González Conde square or the Golden Ball building), disproportionate increases in buildable, etc.

The proposal was presented to both the government team and the opposition groups, unanimously approved in the municipal plenary session of May 2017 through a motion that urged its creation.

Since then, and after much delay, the municipal government has opened two periods of allegations to the draft of the regulations of the future Sectorial Council of Heritage, but has not taken into account the suggestions presented by different associations and entities forming the Platform, such as the Council attends not only to the material heritage but also to the intangible, in the same way that it includes Law 4/2007 of Cultural Heritage of the Region of Murcia, or Law 16/1985 of the Spanish Historical Heritage, and various European conventions that include this fundamental aspect of cultural heritage.

The basis on which the City Council has been denying that the Council addresses aspects of intangible heritage is that the Sector Council will be attached to the current Department of Sustainable Development and Huerta, since it is the one that has the competencies in urban planning, while the slope immaterial is more typical of the Department of Culture.

However, this restrictive view denies that intangible heritage (ethnological, etc.) can be valued in the same way within urban planning in relation to certain spaces, landscapes or real estate, as would be desirable.

With respect to the two periods of allegations referred to above, from the Platform and its formative entities they indicate that the last one of them would not conform to the current regulations regarding the administrative procedure, since a previous public exhibition had existed in parallel, the first he held in the official gazette, which was not rescinded or continued by the council.

Indeed this would invalidate the second period made to the fail to cancel the previous one, thus causing a serious irregularity shape.

In turn, the Platform also notes the inconsistency that UCAM, a company that is being investigated for urban irregularities in the protected environment of the Council, will participate among the institutions that will participate in the Sectorial Council of Heritage and in the Advisory Committee Jeronimos Monastery, or that was expedited by the demolition of the Corralazo building, in Guadalupe, which was listed in the PGOU of Murcia.

Finally, both the Platform and the associations and entities that form it, expect the municipal government and opposition groups to reconsider and address the allegations raised during the period of public exposure of the aforementioned regulation before its final approval in the plenary session. this Thursday.

Source: Plataforma por el Patrimonio