The Barcelona City Council has launched the contracting of private surveillance in 20 municipal plots in the Sant Andreu district to prevent new settlements in the surroundings of La Sagrera, an area marked by the provisional nature of several spaces and by the progress of the works on the future station.
The council has already published the terms of the public contract so that interested companies can submit a bid. Municipal sources maintain that this measure seeks to complement the surveillance already provided by the Urban Guard in disused points and pending transformation within an urban area in continuous change.
Two-year contract and notices to the Urban Guard
The planned award will have a duration of two years, until 2028, with an amount of 177,563 euros. The chosen company must follow a periodic control protocol on the state of municipal plots and report any detected incidents.
That device will include periodic routes to monitor the grounds and transfer notices to the Urban Guard and the district in case of detecting accesses, unauthorized entries or uncivil acts. The action will concentrate on about twenty municipally owned spaces in Sant Andreu, whose addresses appear detailed in the contract documentation.
Plots in la Sagrera, Bac de Roda and the area of the barracks
Among the included plots are parcels of Honduras Street, behind the CEM Sagrera. Also appear spaces located in the surroundings of the Bac de Roda bridge and municipal land in the area of the barracks, on Palomar Street.
Precisely in the area of the barracks, on Carrer del Palomar, there is currently a small settlement. The private surveillance that is now being tendered is proposed in this context, with several sensitive points in the vicinity of La Sagrera and with the intention of reinforcing the monitoring of plots that remain without definitive use.
Recent background of eviction in the area
The last eviction in this sector of La Sagrera took place on March 26. That operation focused on two shantytown clusters located around the Pont del Treball Digne, on land owned by Adif.
In that operation, 126 people were evicted. Now, the City Council makes a move on the municipally-owned plots in Sant Andreu in an area where urban transformation advances at the pace of the future station and where provisional spaces continue to be subject to control and monitoring.