El Perellonet Residents Denounce Municipal Neglect and Lack of Services

The Gaviota Poblado Sud Neighborhood Association accuses the València City Council of ignoring their demands and management deficiencies.

Image of a weathered pedestrian bridge with visible rust, over calm water, with Mediterranean vegetation in the background.
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Image of a weathered pedestrian bridge with visible rust, over calm water, with Mediterranean vegetation in the background.

Residents of El Perellonet, a hamlet of València, express their dissatisfaction with the City Council due to the lack of response to their demands and the perception of being treated as second-class citizens.

The hamlet of El Perellonet, with 1,500 registered residents, feels that its needs are systematically ignored by the València City Council. Both the residents who sustain the hamlet during winter and the floating summer population, which multiplies the census, do not want to feel like "second-class citizens".
The Gaviota Poblado Sud Neighborhood Association points to a "structural problem" in municipal management, which creates a comparative disadvantage with other more central neighborhoods of the city. For this group of residents, the situation follows a "continuous pattern" of lack of administrative response and deficiencies in public services, which do not occur in other districts of València closer to the center.

"We reproach that it is not an isolated case, but a way of functioning in which requests are registered, but the City Council does not resolve them."

the neighborhood entity
Among the main demands is the need to increase the frequency of EMT buses connecting the hamlet with the rest of the city. They report that, in the case of the Pobles del Sud, where El Perellonet is located, travel times to the center have reached 70 minutes. They also call for an end to the danger of a "black spot" on the CV-500, specifically at the access to Avenida de las Gaviotas, where reduced visibility and a curved layout pose a risk. They request the construction of a roundabout or other equivalent traffic management solutions to increase safety.
Furthermore, residents denounce the structural deterioration of the pedestrian walkway connecting El Perelló with El Perellonet, a key passage that shows rusted parts and a lack of maintenance. Finally, among the demands is also the request for an environmental report on the 'Sunlight' project, with which the City Council aims to replace the hamlet's lighting to make it self-sufficient.
The residents of El Perellonet state that they have had to resort to the Síndic de Greuges on several occasions for the City Council to address their claims and respond to some of the numerous requests they have registered. They criticize that the City Council's citizen participation mechanisms "have become a dead end," and they assert their right to be attended to as "residents of València who pay their taxes".