The local Thursday market stall holders in Sitges are currently at odds with the Town Council regarding an order to relocate them.
Just a week ago, the council notified the stall holders by email that they must move from their current location, next to the Passeig Vilafranca, to a new location – the blue zone car park within the Can Robert, which is just a few metres from where they are now. The move must take place before 30 June.
The council considers it appropriate to move the market area, for reasons of image and accessibility. In return, it has offered stall holders a package of actions to boost activity in the new location, including the scheduling of family activities on Thursdays, as well as a temporary exemption from paying one of the quarterly fees in 2022.
The stall holders, however, believe that the reasons given by the council ‘do not fit the reality’ and that some of them are ‘discriminatory’. In addition, they consider that they are trying to ’embitter’ them by moving them to the new location, as they will be surrounded by parked cars and other vehicles circulating the parking lot.
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