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Residents and business owners argue that the facility should not be located in an industrial area of Sevilla
The much-needed homeless shelter planned to take the pressure off of the existing La Macarena centre will not go ahead in the Hytasa polygon in Sevilla as the builders have pulled the plug on the entire project.
The UTE Aossa Global SA-Doc 2001 company has downed tools amid an ongoing dispute that has involved local residents and businesses arguing against the centre being erected in an industrial zone.
The location in an industrial centre at Calle Raso 6 was originally chosen by the developers for its ideal city centre location, “an urban environment and accessible to all kinds of services”. The area is already home to many company offices, leisure and hospitality establishments and the shelter was to operate under strict opening and closing times, so that those using the facilities wouldn’t constantly be coming and going.
The purpose of the project is two-fold: to expand homeless services to different areas of Sevilla and to unburden the La Macarena shelter.
The Centre for High Tolerance (CAT) of Hytasa planned to have 40 places and strict entry requirements. The centre would have offered accommodation, hygiene facilities, food and a psychosocial intervention programme with attendees carefully selected and accompanied by a social worker.
In addition, the city council would only allow service users who planned to stay at the shelter for a prolonged period of time to reduce the rotation of different people every day.
Despite this, locals and business owners united against the venture, arguing that the contract stipulated that the shelter should be located in a “residential area and outside the industrial estates.” Concerns were also raised about the facility’s proximity to the Toribio de Velasco infant school.
For now, the CAT centre is on hold, but mayor Antonio Muñoz has insisted that another location will have to be found for the shelter, as this kind of facility is sorely needed in the city.
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