The Institut Escola Pere Lliscart in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat still lacks a playground since May 26 due to the construction of the new building, a situation that coincides with the restriction of use on the facade of the primary school building due to the risk of falling debris.
The center will begin using the new building in September, but there is still no date to start phase 2 of the works. This lack of a schedule leaves the students' access, recreational spaces, and physical education unresolved just as it is planned to transfer 630 schoolchildren from the temporary modules.
ERC+EUiA will take the lack of a schedule and the state of the facade to Parliament
Jaume Graells, spokesperson for ERC+EUiA, announced that he will bring the situation to the Parliament of Catalonia along with deputy Jordi Albert to demand explanations and concrete schedules for the pending actions at the center.
Graells criticized the project's planning and argued that the new construction did not include basic spaces such as the dining hall, the library, or the gymnasium, in addition to leaving the facade and the court unresolved.
"I regret to say it, but what the Departament d'Educació dares to do in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, it would not dare to do in another city. Being a new construction, it was not foreseen that there would be an adequate dining hall, nor the library, nor that the gymnasium would be built. But the worst of all is that it was not foreseen that this facade was a danger to the students. Neither gymnasium, nor library, nor fixed facade, nor dining hall, and without the court being done. This is low cost, for the Departament it is fantastic" - Jaume Graells, spokesperson for ERC+EUiA
Meanwhile, the risk of falling debris on the facade of the primary school building has forced a limitation of its use, a condition that adds to the loss of the playground since the end of May.
The AFA requests an urgent plan before the arrival of 630 students in September
David Crespí, president of the center's AFA, has requested an urgent meeting with the Serveis Territorials d'Educació of Baix Llobregat and with the Ajuntament to agree on an immediate contingency plan, set a schedule, and ensure alternative spaces for recreation and physical education.
Crespí has also warned that phase 2 of the works has to be re-tendered before it can start and has called for the creation of a monthly monitoring commission.
Municipal sources indicate that the Ajuntament and the Generalitat de Catalunya maintain an active monitoring commission and inform the center, the AFA, and the families about the project's progress.
In parallel, it is planned to expand the fenced area so that the patio can be used again during the adaptation works, although a start date for phase 2 has not yet been specified.
The point that most concerns families is September, when 630 students will move from the temporary modules to the new building, a transfer that, in the words of David Crespí, requires resolving the access for minors, physical education classes, and an adequate recreation area beforehand.