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- The big problem that our City Council has is its huge regulatory deficit;

we do not even have an ordinance that regulates the technical inspection of buildings that exceed 50 years old, and we estimate that there are about 25,000, "said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín

- Cs will demand the creation of an ordinance that regulates the role of the City Council and announces that it will request a technical reinforcement in the negotiations to support the next municipal budgets

Cartagena, Saturday, December 8 -.

Citizens today expressed their concern about the aging of the housing stock in the municipality and the shortage of technicians in the area of ​​Building Safety of the City and regulatory municipal regulations.

Therefore, Cs will demand the creation of an ordinance that regulates the role of the City Council in the evaluation of buildings over 50 years, and announced that it will request a technical reinforcement for the urban department in the negotiations to support the next municipal budgets.

"The inspection of buildings over 50 years is an obligation that is expressed in the Decree that includes the Building Assessment Report (IEE) approved in 2015 by the Community that extends and replaces the classic Technical Inspection of Buildings (ITE) ", explained the spokesman of the orange training, Manuel Padín, who says that the objective of this technical document" is to diagnose the state of conservation, health conditions, accessibility and energy efficiency certification, so that we can to avoid risks and physical damages to the inhabitants and to the people who are located in the surroundings ".

Cs recalls that 195,000 homes in the Region of Murcia should pass the IEE in 2018 according to the report 'Your Building in Form', made by Mutua de Propietarios and the Official Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers of the Region of Murcia, so the orange training estimated that only in Cartagena the figure should approach the more than 25,000 homes.

At present, the area in charge of inspecting the blocks of houses is formed only by an architect and a legal specialist, and at least they need three more professionals, a technician and two assistants.

The shortage of municipal staff does not help to revitalize the construction sector that acts in reforms and rehabilitation, "at a time when it is going badly because of the lack of the PGOU and the difficulty of transitory urban planning rules come into force "adds Padín.

"Next Monday, December 10, we will meet with the Sustainable Development Coordinator, Ángeles López, to address this lack of personnel denounced by the officials themselves and find solutions in the short and medium term," said the orange spokesman. propose the drafting of a new ordinance.

There is no ordinance regulating it

According to Manuel Padín, "the great problem of depth that our City Council has is its enormous regulatory deficit, for example, we have not even had an ordinance that regulates the technical inspection of buildings and, of course, its evolution to a regulatory ordinance of Evaluation Report of Buildings, especially for those over 50 years old. "

"If we do not have this regulation is because we do not want or we are very indolent because there is a model model designed by the Federation of Municipalities," says Padin explains that with these tools we could develop and clarify the intervention of the City to monitor that the owners meet their obligation to establish periodic inspections ", says the spokesman of Citizens that explains that with these ordinances" would improve, among other things, the protocol to require the owners to present the IEE, update the sanctions for those who do not submit the report in time and form and fail without justification their duty of conservation imposed by the regulations, would promote the computerized and updated annual registration of the properties that exceed 50 years.

The need to be more restrictive could even be valued, something that the law allows.

The main problem that the Government has to solve with this ordinance is to offer Cartagena a normative framework to enforce compliance with the conservation duty that new urban regulations and land laws have been attributed to the owners of buildings.

Orange training reminds that the PSOE can not justify its inaction on the grounds that the obligation of the IEE is the owners of these old buildings or have public aid available for rehabilitation works, because the urban discipline and ensure the obligation of conservation are municipal competences, in addition there are various difficulties that require the mediation of the City Council, "the problem comes when the owners with low income can not finance their part of the works, when we do not have a census of old houses, when the municipal publicity of the calls for this aid is insufficient, when the area responsible for the City collapses and works under minimal or of course when we talk about abandoned buildings and illegally occupied as those that exist in some areas of the center, and in many districts and county councils. "

Access to dangerous homes

Another issue that concerns the orange formation is the number of houses in poor condition that exist in the municipality, and that despite their obvious safety and health problems are still not closed or boarded up, "while in the city of Murcia they made 21 foreclosure executions with judicial authorization between 2017 and 2018, as reported by La Opinión, in the city of Cartagena we have no record of any recent action, and only some specific action in recent years when this type of housing extends throughout the municipal term, "said the spokesman for Citizens who notes that" on many occasions there is the circumstance that they are illegally occupied, it is a danger that we can counteract through proper coordination between the City Council, the owners, the Local Police and the Social services".

Manuel Padín has ensured that his Group "is working and analyzing this problem that will lead to an initiative in plenary session."

Other pending matters

On the other hand, Manuel Padín, will ask the Coordinator of Sustainable Development to convene as soon as possible the Urban Planning Commission to address other issues that he considers of "vital importance" for the municipality, such as the recently announced auction of municipal plots, the new road map of the City Council to overcome the urban blockade of Cartagena, and the progress that has taken place in the framework of the future General Urban Plan.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena