Seville currently has More than 10,000 prison apartments spread throughout a large part of its neighborhoods. In areas such as Nervion, Macarena, Casco Antiguo or Poligono de San Pablo, there are neighbors It is difficult for them to leave their homes because of this … Accessibility issues They face, which leads to a state of real frustration. However, it is not the only deficiency in this sense, as there are other developments in which they have an elevator, but the lack of maintenance has led to the facilities becoming obsolete and ceasing to function. This is the case, for example VPOs located on Andén Street in the San Jeronimo neighborhoodIts elevators have stopped working since 2018.
This Tuesday, City Mayor José Luis Sanz She paid a visit to her neighbors to inform them that the city council would launch a project to renovate its 10 elevators, putting an end to a problem that dates back more than seven years. “They have been requesting these maintenance tasks for years, but have not received any response from Emvisesa“,” the Seville councilor said this morning. Now, the municipal government will implement these works in two phases, achieving a total investment of Just over 480,000 euros. First, and soon, work will begin to replace the first four elevators, which will last about five months. Already in 2026, action will be taken on the remaining six lifts.
This is a housing development project promoted by Emvisesa in 2001 and in Currently about 183 residents resideWhich also includes many beneficiaries of social rental programs. This fact has caused community fees to remain unpaid in recent years, making it difficult to carry out maintenance tasks on the building. This is what he reported this morning Maria Luisa Garcia, President of the International Community. “We are in a very precarious situation, because there is a lot of debt owed to neighbors who could pay but do not want to,” he explained. Yet he is proud of it I was able to recover 30 percent of the amounts owed.
All this has led to an “unsustainable” situation for those who reside in these buildings on Andin Street in the San Jeronimo neighborhood. One of the affected cases is that of Maria Luisa herself She had surgery and has a plate in her leg from her knees to her thigh.. “I have to climb the stairs to the second floor every day, and this is difficult for me.” Despite this, he realizes that there are other neighbors who are “worse off” and arguably “trapped” in their homes. “If the elevator doesn’t get them out, we or their families will get them out, even if it’s just to give them a walk down the hall. “They walk around the entire building,” he says. At 73 years old, he claims to be “on the street all day” to achieve improvements in his mass. In fact, “we got spotlights and patio seating and even painted them, something that had never been done.”
48 new elevators
The new elevators that will be installed in these homes are considered a novelty Remote monitoring technology. Besides this, it also features energy rating and advanced safety systems. This is the same policy that the government of José Luis Sanz is already applying in other similar cases in the city, e.g The eight lifts that have already been changed at Cross PirotecniaAs the first mayor mentioned this morning. Thus, the goal that the executive authority is working on is nothing other than “ending the prison floors” in the city. In fact, as he explained, “In these two years, we have already installed 48 new elevators compared to the 8 that PSOE installed in its last two terms.». The goal is that, between now and 2027, another 77 elevators worth 10 million elevators will be in operation.
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