Oleiros analyzes the state of Casa Carnicero to decide its future | Radio Coruña | Today for Today A Coruña

The City Council of Potters analyze this morning the state in which the Butcher House, the modernist house that suffered a spectacular fire yesterday afternoon, visible from various parts of the region. Municipal technicians analyze the state of the property, located at the foot of the bridge of the Passage, to determine what can be done from now on.

The mayor of Oleiros, Angel Garcia Seoane, has indicated that in the Butcher House lived a person who had occupied the building without permission. He alludes directly to this situation to point out the possible causes of the fire: “This house did not burn alone, someone set it on fire, occasional or provoked. There was an occupant and it is time for action to be taken regarding these occupations.”

García Seoane assures that the Oleiros City Council began the procedures for that the current owners cede the house to municipal property. The mayor maintains that they had demanded the rehabilitation of the property from the owners. The owners claimed that they did not have the capacity to do so and hence the transfer process began. The Council was going to rehabilitate the house, according to the mayor: “Houbo had a meeting with us two edges of this man, we were selling to see if they did not give it up to restore it as municipal property.”

Heritage in danger

The affected house is known as ‘Chalé Carnicero’, work of the architect Rafael Gonzalez Villar, of the year 1916. It is a house cataloged in the General Plan of Municipal Management of Oleiros, built by the architect for the businessman from A Coruña Enrique Carnicero Ríos.

The architect Jose Manuel Lopez Mihura warns that in the A Coruña region there are many unique houses or buildings that are in the same danger: “Throughout the region there are examples of architectural jewels that go the same way and some fall into abandonment, deterioration or sinister because they are pending certain deadlines that have not just come to fruition “.

This expert points out that one of the problems is the slowness of the administrations in demanding that the owners preserve properties, with terms and extensions that are extended in time without finding a final solution to these problems.

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