MEPS TO VISIT PARCENT

A delegation from the Petition's Committee

of the European Parliament is to visit

Parcent on March 1st. The visit to Parcent

and 9 other villages in Alicante Province

was proposed during the debate of our

petition in the Petition's Committee last

November.

The delegation, which aims to investigate

the current situation of abuses of urban

planning legislation and breaches of European

laws, is headed by the President of the

Committee, Mr Marcin Libicki. He is

accompanied by British Labour MEP, Michael

Cashman, Vice President of the Petition's Committee.

They will be arriving in Parcent on the afternoon

of thursday March 1st and will be met by 'Veïns

de Parcent' by the Cooperativa building

after 4.30 pm, after which we will host a meeting

for the delegation to talk with petitioners,

allowing people to explain their worries and

complaints about the three PAIs which were

provisionally approved by Parcent Town Hall

on 30th January 2006.

The MEPs will then attend a meeting with the

Town Hall after which they will head for Benissa

where a public meeting is to be held in the

Sede Universitaria building, Calle Purissima 57/59

from 7pm till 9pm.

We invite all members of 'Veïns de Parcent' and

all interested in the problems of urban planning

in Valencia and in particular Parcent to

meet us at the Cooperativa Building and

attend our meeting with the MEPS to

demonstrate our oppostion to the Town Hall's

plans and our thanks to the Petition's Committee

of the EU for coming to Parcent to investigate our

complaint.

DEFENSOR DEL PUEBLO BACKS
VEÏNS DE PARCENT'S PETITION


















Veïns de Parcent held a press conference on
friday 2nd February to announce the report
issued by the Defensor de Pueblo, the national
Ombudsman based in Madrid, into the
petition presented by our association and
backed with 1700 signatures.
The Defensor de Pueblo confirmed both the
findings and the resolution adopted in November
by the Valencian Ombudsman (Sindica de Grueges)
stating again that the three PAI provisionally approved
by Parcent Town Hall should be suspended due to
the lack of a favourable water report from the
Confederación Hidrografica de Jucar. The report
also confirmed that neither the Town Hall or the
Mancomunidad de Regentes (the local water board)
has the authority to give this guarantee and backs
the Sindicas suprise that the Town Hall were
happy to approve the PAI without such a report.
This advice is not only given to Parcent Town Hall but also
Conselleria de Territorio who are charged with
examing the plans for approval. We thus wait for
the response of the Town Hall and Conselleria to
this new rejection of the PAI by a state institution.
However as neither the Town Hall or Conselleria
have responded to the original Sindic de Greuges
report issued in November, with a deadline of
30-1-2007, we have little faith that they will take
any notice of this new backing for the petition of
Veïns de Parcent. We once again urge Parcent
Town Hall to listen, not only to the people of Parcent
but to the Sindic de Greuges, the Defensor del Pueblo,
the TSJCV and the European Union.

UMBRELLAS UP ON ANOTHER RAINY NIGHT

200 people join Veïns de Parcent
to remember the night of30.1.2006 when
Parcent Town Hall voted to provisionally
approve the three PAI.

















Fortunately the weather was not quite so
ferocious as a year ago but the umbrellas
remained up as a symbolic protest at how
we were shut out of the Town Hall in torrential
rain on the night of 30.1.2006

The demonstration was attended by over 200
people, a great turnout for a cold wet night.
We once again walked the streets of Parcent, this
time stopping to read out the notice of what the
Town Hall have failed to inform it's citizens.
Namely the judgements of the Sindic de Greuges,
recommending the suspension of the processing
of all three PAI due to the lack of a favourable
water report from the competent water authority
and the two autos from the TSJCV, Doctine of Parcent
suspending the PAI 'El Repla'.
We then returned to the plaza to find the tomb
of Parcent surrounded by candles and vultures and
after laying the flag of SALVEM PARCENT, the date
of death was revealed to be ?????? and the vultures
kicked away. We afirm there is life yet in our village,
our fight is gaining momentum and there is hope
that we may yet save our village from the threat
of massive urbanisation.

The evening ended with our stoical and faithful
supporters braving the cold to listen to the tape
of our petition hearing in Brussels. All were very
interested to hear the intervention of the Mayoress
of Parcent and the clear response from the Euro
MPs present in the Committee. A very different
story from the one painted by the Mayoress in
the press on her return from Brussels!!!