Palma schools face cooling push as PSOE targets rent cap
Palma’s PSOE will press for school cooling and greener playgrounds at the City Council’s September plenary meeting. The party is also taking plans to curb rents, improve municipal bus services and tackle street noise and poor cleaning to the chamber. It says the measures follow months spent identifying the city’s main problems.
Iago Negueruela, the socialist group’s general secretary and mayoral candidate, accused the mayor of putting major projects ahead of people’s concerns. He said schools urgently need climate control, while playgrounds and the areas around them should be made greener.
The party will also raise the purchase of Can Pesquet and the Iris cinema, along with what it calls a lack of dialogue between the mayor and local people.
Rent limits and empty homes
On housing, the PSOE wants Palma declared a stressed housing market area, a move it says would allow rent prices to be limited. It also proposes a moratorium on the sale of homes not intended for living in and a City Council register of empty properties.
Negueruela said Palma is becoming increasingly upmarket. He pointed to Cala Major, where two sunbeds, a parasol and a safe at a municipal beach concession cost 125 euros.
Bus timetable row
Francesc Dalmau, the PSOE spokesperson at the City Council, said the party will demand changes to new Municipal Transport Company, or EMT, timetables. The socialists say the alterations at the start of the school year have made the service worse.
They also want the planned EMT depot at Son Rossinyol to include a car park, which they say was promised to offset the loss of 500 parking spaces. The party is calling for information screens that it says have not worked for three years to be switched on.
The PSOE will further seek action on urban noise and cleaning in several Palma neighbourhoods. It also wants the plenary to support public healthcare, oppose privatisation and call for the dismissal of Son Espases’ current manager over what it describes as poor management.
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Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com