The activity of street artists, who traditionally flood with joy and color the streets and squares of Seville with their music and their dances, will no longer be in a legal limbo. The City Council will prepare a Ordinance to regulate the allowed schedules and authorized spaceswith the objective also to dignify the work that these professionals do, as already do other Spanish cities.
This is a Vox proposal, which has been approved this Thursday in full unanimously of all the political groups of the municipal corporation and that seeks to “give peace of mind” to these workersafter, according to those of Santiago Abascal, they have been “tax sanctions for improper occupation” of public roads in the Plaza de España and sometimes, “their instruments have been requisitioned”, something that “has been happening for a little over a year.”
All this despite his “very high quality “, with an” experience“Eight years, which are an” attractive “for visitors to this monument, in this case. And among these artists, there are also” musicians from other countries who are in Seville studying and that put into practice their knowledge of our music in this type of show, “they added, also defending that it is an activity that is” accepted for a long time. ”
In this sense, the delegate of Urbanism, Juan de la Rosa, who has been prone to delimit the “spaces and time”, through a “fair” ordinance that puts “value” This activity has stressed that the municipal government “is already working on it”, aware that there was no specific norm, so, currently, “noise is being applied, dating from 2019,” they have reported. To do this, according to the popular mayor, they will work “by the hand of Vox, who has brought this proposal and the groups they contribute”, as well as professionals and artists, with which they have already “gathered several times.”
From the socialist group, they have considered “necessary” this regulation, not only because of the “precarious situation” in which they are, but also for the importance of “regulating these spaces in terms of neighborhood coexistence and possible discomforts that may cause“. In this sense, the councilor Juan Carlos Cabrera, has advocated” establishing areas “, differentiating the commercial and residential, carrying out a” study on the noise “allowed, as well as” delimiting the schedules “in which they can act.
In addition, in terms of the possible creation of a committee for the qualification of these artists and that they can accredit, they have shown their concern, he has asked that “There is no political bias“According to the Socialists, this rule has already” began in the previous government “, and previously, in 2017, the City Council approved a motion to modify municipal ordinances so as not to consider these artistic activities under the same umbrella of the noise regulations.
In this sense, Vox’s text, a sign that “some years ago there was an agreement” to process the writing of an ordinance that regulates the musical performances in the street, but “said incitement, for reasons we do not know, remained in oblivion.” And they affect that “many cities have their ordinance”, in them the musicians “have their accreditation, their schedules, their locations, In some places they pay fees, in others not”
Specifically, Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga and Cádiz, among other Spanish cities, They already have a similar rule in this regard, they defend from Vox. The capital of the country limited musical performances last year in 18 streets of the center, in which you can only act alive, it is to use instruments, speakers or amplifiers or background sound accompaniment. In addition, authorizations were also reduced by half, until 250, and areas were established without any percussion at certain times, if they can be used from Friday to Sunday from 12.00ha 14.00Hy 18.00ha 21.00h.
