Denouncias by bar owners
Jeff I really am sorry to put another question to you,via the SL Forum,but sometimes things seem a bit amiss.I put these questions to you purely because you are my local councillor,and hopefully you can ask whoever is necessary to find an answer,as yet you have done this in a great manner.
On your blog from the 27th May,regarding the problems with bars,you mentioned that valencia had received over 70 complaints,regarding noise,I am guessing that most of these complaints are regarding Consume2 area.
You say that many of these complaints come from owners of unlicensed bars and are aimed at owners of licensed bars.I find this sort of strange,if anything like this was going on,I would of thought it would be the licensed bars complaining about the unlicensed bars,I may be wrong,But for it to be, as stated on your blog,surely these unlicensed bar owners,would have enough of a brain to realise they would be virtually putting a death sentence on their bar.Where as if i was an owner of a licensed bar I would be livid to know that some owners were illegal and were getting the same benefits for nothing as i was paying a fortune for.For my own sanity i really hope neither of these things are going on.
I have said before I have little knowledge of Spanish Law,but you also state the police are duty bound to act on any complaint received.This surely brings another point,If the bars were complaining and the police were acting,I gather the police dont often find anything to report,other than to tell either party to grow up and behave.Further to this i believe if a complaint is made to the police surely it is just one or two bar owners making the complaints,Surely the police are not expected to waste time sorting out the petty jealousy.and tell the complainent that as nothing much is ever found regarding the noise that the complainent is wasting police time,surely Spain has such a law.
I obviously dont expect you to name names,but the council must surely know who is involved.
My other thought is that perhaps the many bar owners complaining is really only a few if any,