Madrid will allow mobile transparent panels to keep the terraces open during winter

• Hospitality.Madrid reduces to a minimum the procedures for bars and restaurants to install stoves on their terraces

The Madrid City Council continues to advance in its policy of staunch support for the hospitality industry.

To the temporal and spatial expansion of the terraces, the elimination of the tax and the permissiveness for the installation of electric stoves, the Terraces Commission of the City Council of the capital has added a new measure this Wednesday: the

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"We continue to adopt measures to save the hospitality industry by safely extending the terrace season during winter," said the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, who added that hoteliers will be able to install "protective panels against cold and rain" from the same Thursdays on the terraces of the city's bars and restaurants.

These elements, as explained by municipal sources, must be mobile,

, must be transparent to allow the view of citizens and can only be placed in three of the sides of the terraces, leaving the pedestrian side open.

What these panels will allow is

, glass screens, mobile metal or wooden structures, awnings or any other type of synthetic or textile materials as long as they meet the above requirements.

This was one of the demands that the hospitality sector had transferred to the municipal corporation together with the installation of stoves in these spaces, approved last October by the City Council, to be able to keep its terraces open during the winter stage when considering them fundamental places to face the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic and the capacity limitations established by health protocols.

In recent months, the City Council has focused a good part of its policies on a sector that both the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, have defined on multiple occasions as "one of the most affected" by the health crisis.

Hence, a large part of the tax cuts approved by the corporation on October 29, such as the reduction of the IBI, the IAE or the garbage rate and the elimination of the terrace tax, were focused on the sector.

In addition, already last summer, the municipal government extended the terrace season for 2020 and allowed hospitality businesses to place their tables in earthen areas and corners of the capital as well as install high tables with stools attached to their facades to make against the capacity limitations resulting from the health protocols against the coronavirus.

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