Rebellion against the biggest ghost kitchen: "A six-story chimney, smells, noises, the 'riders'... You can't live like this"

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The humble

at the start of Zabaleta street, in the Prosperidad neighborhood, woke up yesterday with a different movement than usual.

Faced with the motorized and incessant noise of

, with their exhaust pipes and their chatter at the foot of the window, hundreds of people occupied the road to protest against the ghost macro kitchen active for a year and a half in the patio of lights of

.

"Our lives have totally changed," says Alfonso de Celis, one of the victims, who lives just opposite the entrance to the

business - owned by the

company , run by one of the founders of

- and who has been seen forced to move his living room inside the house, given the unbearable hustle and bustle.

"And there are people with bedrooms facing the street, with children... Horrible. We support industrial activity in a residential neighborhood," he denounces.

"We put up with 38 kitchens, noise, smells,

... You can't live," says Silvia, whose house, on Cartagena street, overlooks the patio where the macro

, just to stand out on the houses, the necessary legal shortcut.

The chimney, with six floors, under the roof of the interior patio, the 38 kitchens.EM

The case is not new in the capital, but it does hide a differential fact: it is

, with 1,500 square meters and 38 kitchens of 12 and 16 meters, which, among other orders, serve, residents say , the

hamburgers

of the Vicio brand, from the television winner of

, Aleix Puig.

The manager of the facilities, dressed in a cap and sunglasses, refused to make statements to this newspaper.

Only in this block, surrounded by Zabaleta, Canillas, Cartagena and Quintiliano streets, there are 302 homes and more than a thousand people affected 365 days

, both those who live close to the vehicles that collect orders and suffer "disrespect" from their drivers, like those who live with "the annoying hum and particles emitted by the chimney, which can be harmful to health," explains Silvia.

"No

Neither mobility nor health.

It is a shame that these businesses open without supervision", he claims, while he waits, together with the Platform of People Affected by the Ghost Kitchens of Madrid, for the resolution at the end of the month of the dispute against the City Council, for the granting of licenses. They point against the Municipal government, which, after failing to approve the Modification of Urban Planning Regulations in plenary, announced

.

The manager of the macro kitchen (with a cap) in front of the neighbors. JAVIER BARBANCHO

The

has already been traveled by communities, grouped in the Platform, from three other districts: in Arganzuela, those of

(with 21 kitchens) and

(12 closed next to the Miguel de Unamuno school);

in Centro, that of

(7) and in Tetuán, that of

, pioneers in the protest (31), that of

is going to be installed

) and that of

(from three Michelin stars Dani García).

In Chamartín, there are two nuclei in 600 meters: the one reviewed in

(38 kitchens) and the one in

(from the GoXo brand, by Dabiz Muñoz, another three stars).

In Madrid, there are around

- Más Madrid counted 190 in 26 locations in the fall of 2021 and the PSOE raised the number to almost 250 shortly after.

"There was a

on this type of business," stresses Santiago Navas, who suffers from those of José Calvo.

"It is an illegal situation. There is no regulation on which to base it, but the most similar one is applied," he elucidates in the case of Barcelona -they were sent to polygons-, and complains that "the Consistory is not managing it.

.

Despite the fact that they even carry proposals regarding the desired closure: "For the kitchens that open in the future, we ask that they be limited to 300 meters inside; that there be an area where

can enter to park, have their services, their

, and are not in the middle of the street, which is what causes discomfort to the neighbors;

that they have a maximum of four or five kitchens, and that of course there is a distance between one business and another".

The neighbors improvised their posters against the neighboring 'dark kitchen'. JAVIER BARBANCHO

The requests include an environmental impact study.

Santiago Navas, a veteran of the fight, acknowledges that

, but in urban environments, the wind returns the odors.

For larger complexes, like this one with 38 Prosperity kitchens, he sees no other destination than to take them out to polygons.

Because in those eight meters wide Zabaleta street, up to

for their order, while they eat, they make it difficult for vehicles to pass and on the sidewalks, they wait with their music and their food, with their bikes anchored to windows. Low, with the facades marked by their waiting footprints...

"The City Council does not rectify because their fingers have been caught," says Santiago Navas.

And he explains, understanding:

, in accordance with many regulations, they present it to them and since they work through external companies for those licenses,

. "

He wants to think well, he says, he prefers not to venture into other interests, which have been slipping from the

.

This Sunday, Eduardo Fernández Rubiño, a regional deputy for Más Madrid, joined the Zabaleta rally, along with other militants from his party and from Unidas Podemos de Prosperidad.

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