Sagrada Familia and Barcelona City Council present agreement to normalise building permit.
The Sagrada Familia will make an investment of 36 million euros over the next 10 years, which will be used to compensate for the expense that the temple causes in the city: The agreement covers management of a series of improvements to the urbanisation, mobility and surroundings, by the Sagrada Família, with financial consideration including, among other things, funding the city’s public transport deficit, redeveloping the streets around the Basilica and covering the costs of cleaning, security and civic agents required to keep the area around the Temple under control.
The agreement reached is the result of these two bodies working together over the past two years to draft the legal instruments necessary to normalise the urban-development situation of the Temple works and find the best way for these to fit into and work with the immediate surroundings. The first phase of this agreement is to draft a special plan including all of Gaudí’s project, but leaving the execution of the narthex on the Glory façade for a later phase.
The press was aware of the agreement, in the negotiations in which Pareja i Associats, Advocats desk took part, advising the Temple Construction Board.
BBC. 18 October 2018. Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia agrees deal over lack of licence
The New York Times. 19 October 2018. Sagrada Familia, a Barcelona Masterpiece, and Scofflaw?
CNN, 19 October 2018. Sagrada Familia church gets building permit, 136 years late