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“A fat woman has been prepared in the neighborhood”, stated Esther Santos, president of the Santa Eulalia Neighborhood Association, in November 2016 shortly after a group of young people ‘founded’Storm’, a social center ‘occupation’ self-managed (CSOA) in a neighborhood building located at the confluence of the streets of Maria de Pablos (formerly Provisional Sergeant) and the Convent.
A few days before He Advanced had echoed the presence of ‘busy’ in this uninhabited property after the placement of a banner on one of its balconies with the legend ‘Bringing dead spaces to life’.
The young promoters of the initiative had communicated through an information note posted on the property that their objective was to “Make the ruins a social center for Segovia” where you can enjoy alternative leisure through free activities, promoting creativity and personal and collective development.
They also warned that it would not allow drug or alcohol consumption and insisted that it was an inclusive space where it would not be allowed “No type of attitude or aggression caused by hatred, irrationality or simply that threatens the integrity of any person (sexism, racism, speciesism, homophobia, transphobia …) ”.
“We are rehabilitating and disinfecting, which we consider a benefit for the neighborhood”
To justify the occupation of the building, the group argued that the place was a dovecote “That we are rehabilitating and disinfecting, which we consider a benefit for the neighborhood”.
But the response from building ownership and most of the neighborhood has been belligerent and the CSOA, After a few months of relative activity, it was declining despite some residents of the area claiming that until not long ago you could see a ‘squat’ enter and exit the building.
In May of last year the Junta of Local government of the Segovia City Council granted to society Distralicon the urban planning license for the grouping of two urban farms in a single resulting plot, one of them coinciding with the aforementioned center ‘Storm’. Two months later, on July 9, the same company received the go-ahead for the demolition of the two buildings in accordance with a project approved in the College of Architects in March 2017. This last license had a period of 6 months for the execution of the demolition works, which has been rushed to the maximum, since they began this same month of January.
An excavator, located on the rubble of what was ‘Storm’, yesterday the demolition work of the adjoining building continued. Among those remains are also buried the fears of some neighbors who thought they were going to have a ‘Patio Wonders’ in the neighborhood, in reference to a mythical space ‘squat’ of Madrid.
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