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The Municipal Socialist Group is suspicious that the Government team, PP, finally pull out the rehabilitation project of the Old Prison.
"There have already been too many unfulfilled promises, too many announcements of good intentions and we continue with an emblematic and central building absolutely abandoned for decades," explains councilor Begoña García Retegui.
It also requires a framework for citizen participation.
"It is necessary that all that has to do with the Old Prison is shared with the neighbors, that nothing is raised and executed at night and allowed their participation so that the final result is agreed and is the result of the involvement of all Society is no longer just a political claim, it is a neighborhood clamor, and in fact there is a Citizen Platform for the Old Prison, that the future of the building counts with the contribution of all. See a lot with participation ", says García Retegui.
He also announced that he will present a communication to the councilor responsible and a motion to the next plenary to request that, on the one hand, "we be informed of the situation of the call for ideas called, which is late because we were announced that in 2017 the first Rehabilitation phase would be a reality and, on the other hand, a day of citizen participation will be organized where the jail will be discussed and contributions from the neighbors will be collected, "
Since the closure of the Provincial Prison in 1981 and after the negotiation between the City Council and the State Administration for the assignment of the building, "nothing has been done that at least contributed to preserve in good condition this property that is part of the municipal heritage And the memory of all Murcia.The PP only remembers the Old Jail in the election campaign, has been a promise of both the former mayor Chamber and Ballesta on several occasions, which is contradictory to the laziness they have shown, Says the councilor.
In September of last year the City Council signed with the College of Architects the agreement to open a contest of preliminary projects for the rehabilitation and use of the Old Jail, and "again points out, we find that there is no progress and that despite That there was talk about having a financing of about two million euros.We were promised that the project was going to take a run and that within a reasonable time the Murcia would have a recovered building that would serve as a cultural and social center, What is missing ".
The Councilor recalls that several uses for the Old Jail have been announced over the years, "too many plans, which in addition to staying in water borage, denote the lack of clarity of the Government team and the little interest is to move forward this centric and Emblematic building, which is considered the Singular Element ".
In addition, it is characterized by its architectural layout in a cross floor, which responds to the panopticon concept.
It was built at the beginning of the 20th century and inaugurated in June 1929.
Garcia Retegui concludes that "the abandonment suffered by the building by the City Council will prevent future generations to contemplate the building as it was built by allowing it to fall and lose some of its architectural elements, although its value is also to be part of Our memory, of the memory of several generations of Murcia. "
Source: PSOE Murcia
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