VEINS DE PARCENT WIN
THE SUPPORT OF THE
PETITIONS COMMITTEE.
OUR PETITION REMAINS
OPEN AND A DELEGATION
OF EURO MPS IS TO VISIT
PARCENT

VEINS DE PARCENT PRESENT
OUR PETITION IN THE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
IN BRUSSELS






















Members of Veïns de Parcent travelled
to Brussels on 28.11.2006 to present
our petition to the European Parliament.
We were invited to speak on behalf of
the 3390 petitioners who had backed
the petition to the Parliament presented
in April this year.

After presenting our case
the Mayoress of Parcent was invited to
speak, followed by the response from
representatives of the Environment
Commission and the Commission dealing
with Internal Market.
A number of Euro MPs then spoke in the debate,
including Joan Calabuig (Spanish PSOE),
Neil Parish (UK Conservative), Michael
Cashman (UK Labour), Sir Robert Atkin
(UK Conservative) and Ines Ayala (Spanish
PSOE). All the above mentioned MEPs
argued that the petition continue to be investigated,
with only the PP MEP from Spain speaking
against. Amongst the contributions were
comments from Neil Parish that the petition
be dealt with before the bulldozers arrived
and questions from Sir Robert Atkins to
the Mayoress of Parcent asking if it were
indeed true that she sent the police to stop
people signing the petition, a serious act
(detailed previously in this blog), and if it
were also true that the Counciller for urban
planning who voted for the PAIs was related
to the major property owner of the largest of
the three PAIs and at the time of the vote
also an agent acting for the developer.

Michael Cashman proposed that in addition to
keeping the petition open the Committee
seek an urgent meeting with the Environment
Commission to discuss the impact of such
plans on the Environment and why petitions
such as ours are not responded to with more
urgency. This meeting was agreed to by the
Chairman Mr Martin Libinski. Michael Cashman
further proposed that Parcent be included in
a fact finding mission to Alicante and Valencia
so the Euro MPs can see for themselves the
impact such developments will have on the area
and to further study the arguments put forward
in our petition. This visit was agreed to and
Veins de Parcent have now received written
confirmation that this visit will take place.

We want to thank all those who have supported us
in bringing our petition to the European Parliament
and the MEPs and staff in the Parliament who
spoke in our favour and continue to help us to
ensure that Parcent Town Hall and the developers
will be unable to proceed with developments that
break European law.