Lisbon City Council wants to launch tender for the new Martim Moniz by the end of the year | Lisbon
It is not indifferent to those who live there and pass by, so many wanted to have a say on what the future of Praça do Martim Moniz should be, in the long process of public participation that the municipality launched. Now, this path seems to be at the beginning of its end: the Lisbon City Council will admit the public tender for the work until the end of the year.
After much contestation, petitions and demonstrations against the requalification proposal presented by the 2018 municipality, the creation of a commercial area with containers in the center of this square in Lisbon, it would end up being abandoned a year later. Then followed the design of a process of public participation to listen to the populationwhich started at the end of 2020. According to what was then communicated by the municipality, about a thousand people in the first phasewhich included the response to a survey and a dozen discussion groups (focus groups).
The chamber, led now by Carlos Moedas, now that it wants to continue the process of public consultation initiated by the previous executive, informing that “it intends to respond to the manifestations of citizens who have come together, organize and work towards a new solution of requalification that responds to the expectations and needs of those who live, work and visit Praça Martim Moniz”.
In response to PÚBL’s questions, the quarter’s answer that it intends to be launched on the square, he adds that he foresees a proposal for a chamber during the first quarter of 2022 and that he intends the program launched on the basis of the public for the work to be launched in the future to the basis of the public tender make year.
On the basis of the program for the public tender will be the various contributors generated in the participatory process, they will remain from the present moment, to be developed by the international services, says the municipality. In
“The contributions generated were generated and gave a report to the municipality of public consultation and the place for the preliminary program for the requalification of Praça Martim Moniz, approved at a City Council meeting on May 13, 2021”, recalls the. This information can be consulted on the website Lisbon Participates.
Nessetim document clear, osmos citizens a “wide green space”, an open, multicultural and safe squarewith cultural and sporting activities in the open air.
This space should also have a children’s playground, associated with kiosks and esplanades, with shaded areas and water features. They also proposed the accessibility of road traffic and parking. The disorganization of the graded and poorly framed surface parking by the square, the disorganization of the degraded and poorly framed surface parking to “constructed poorly framed” were, moreover, the most identified points identified by citizens.