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The Porto Chamber rejected the request for qualification of the old Boavista train station, where it intends to build the English Court, considering that the legal criteria for the opening of the procedure are not met.
“In light of article 17 of the Fundamental Law of Cultural Heritage, Law 107/201, of September 8 and article 21 of Decree – Law 309/2009, of October 23, the criteria that would support the opening of the process administrative procedure for the classification as heritage of municipal interest of the old Porto-Boavista railway station and its adjoining land ”, reads the letter to which Lusa had access.
In the letter of December 21, the director of the Municipal Department of Cultural Management, Sofia Alves, affirms that the decision arises from the analysis of the instructional elements attached to the application, namely, the initial application of the classification procedure and the opinion of the Portuguese Heritage Association. Industrial, but does not specify, however, specifically the reasons that guided the decision not to open the classification process of the Porto-Boavista station.
The project of the Spanish chain of the old railway station has been contested, having led, in June, a group of citizens to request the municipal classification of the old Boavista railway station, according to the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage (DGPC ). ) have submitted the national application.
In an open letter, 62 personalities linked to the academy and railway heritage, warn of the importance of preserving the old Boavista train station, which represents a “very important part of the railway history, but also of the history of Porto” that is at risk if the project from El Corte Inglés to that location progresses.
At the beginning of December, the Movement for a Railway Garden in Boavista denounced that although the Request for Prior Information (PIP) was approved by the municipality in October, a request for municipal classification of the old railway station continued to function in municipal services, disrespectful. legal deadlines.
The movement also considered “contradictory” the approval of the Spanish network’s PIP without responding to the request for revocation of the treatment that the municipality itself sent to the responsible ministry, following a recommendation approved unanimously on November 25, 2019.
Days later, and after a fire that caused “great damage” to the interior structures of the ground floor and the collapse of the central roof, at dawn on the 11th, this group of citizens urged the authorities to investigate the causes and the responsible for the fire. “penal”, for which a request for classification was pending.
Last week, in response to Lusa, the Public Ministry indicated that an investigation was launched to determine if there was a criminal hand in the fire that broke out in the old Boavista station and about which a criminal complaint had already been filed against unknown persons by Portugal (IP), owner of the land.
For the land of the old Boavista railway station, in addition to a large commercial warehouse, the installation of a hotel and a residential building for commerce and services is planned, whose Prior Information Request (PIP) was approved in October.
So far, El Corte Inglés will have paid IP 18.7 million euros.
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