The Seville City Council, through the Department of Urban Planning, will publish in the coming days a new call for aid, with 4.8 million eurosfor the installation of elevators in buildings which currently do not have them. These new … subsidies will mean a aid of 120,000 euros per intercommunitywhich will involve the installation of approximately 40 elevators in homeowner communities located in San Pablo, where there is the greatest elevator shortage in the entire city.
Regarding this new call, the mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, stressed that “we continue to take big steps to put an end to the prison floors in the city. Thanks to this call, we will be able to install 40 new elevators in the Polígono San Pablo improve accessibility in the residential areas of Seville, making a city more accessible, fairer and more pleasant to live in for everyone.
Likewise, the first mayor highlighted that “thanks to this new aid we will be able to reach more residential buildings by increasing the number of elevators and thus reaffirm our commitment to improving accessibility in residential buildings in Seville”, adding that “between the first and second call we make possible the installation of 52 new elevators in this area of Seville and it is expected that a third call Another 25 can be built, which would mean 77 new elevators in the Polígono San Pablo building.
This new call is intended for communities of owners located in districts D and E of the industrial zone of San Pabloin the building of which, of three floors or more, reside at least two people aged over 70, with a recognized disability equal to or greater than 50% and with reduced mobility, or recognized dependency of degree 2 or 3.
Once this call is published in the Official Journal of the Province (BOP), the the period for submission of applications will be two months (since publication). On the Urban Planning and Environmental Management website, www.urbanismosevilla.org, the above-mentioned areas can be consulted, by accessing Annex I which accompanies the Papers and this call.
The mayor explained that “thanks to the Sevilla Acelera office, with these subsidies, a new form of aid for the construction of elevators is launched: thesubsidy in the event of non-competitive competition, so that All applications submitted on time will be accepted provided they meet the established requirements. in the various calls that take place.
End of first call
On the other hand, the town hall, through the Town Planning Department, has extended the deadline for submitting applications for the first call for help for elevators. until December 12.
This call has a total amount of 2,160,000 euros – which will mean aid of 180,000 euros per intercommunity– for the installation of 12 elevators.
In this first call, the aid was intended for communities of owners formed as an intercommunality located in the Districts D and E of the San Pablo industrial zone(San Pablo – Santa Justa district) and are adjacent buildings located on the corner, which allows accessibility to be solved on two buildings with a single elevator.
The Sanz government has already installed 8 elevators in Cross Pirotecnia; Recently, four very deteriorated elevators with a history of breakdowns since 2018 in the VPO rental development on Andén Street, in the San Jerónimo neighborhood, are being renovated. The current government team launched in two years at least 50 elevators with an approximate investment of 4.5 million euros.
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