Concluded the public debate on the requalification of the waterfront of Livorno and on the Europe Platform



The Harbour Authority of Livorno has drawn the conclusions of the public debate on the projects of requalification of the waterfront city and on those for the realization of the harbour infrastructure Europe Platform, dedicated initially to the traffic of the container bound together successively to that of the freeways of the sea, debate that is started on 12 April and has been concluded yesterday with the presentation of the results.

In the 90 days thousand people are involved. In 355 they have participated to the organized thematic laboratories from in charge of the public debate, Sophie Guillain, and from its staff. A hundred of citizens has taken part more than three meets organized in the Canaviglia room of the Mediceo Complex, and in 211 they have joined to the guided tours in port.

Conclusion of the initiative the harbour agency has wondered if the public debate has been useful. The answer - it has explained the authority - is positive if they are gone to analyze the which put on statistical data from the promoters of the initiative: on the base of a survey of approval manifactured from in charge of the debat public, 87% of which have participated to the encounters have declared to have comprised the things better and than successful being to become clear the ideas on the two which aimed at macros dealt. Quite - it has specified the agency - there is who, to the term of the participatory distance, has asserted to have changed in positive own opinions: 35% of the total with reference to the Europe Platform; 44.1% with reference to the project of realization of a new Marine Station.

If mayor of Livorno, Filippo Nogarin, has many times over expressed perplexity on the effectiveness of the harbour new work, the Harbour Authority has taken to the leap the results of the debate evidencing that "25% of the dependent or communal civil employees that has participated to the encounters has asserted to have changed in positive own judgment on the Europe Platform".

From part its in charge of the debate has suggested to the harbour authority to promote a continuous monitoring of the outcomes of the debate, the environmental impacts and the social and economic fallen back ones of the two projects through the institution of a permanent observatory, and has put the accent on the importance of an argument shared around the projects of infrastructural development of a harbour truth: "the terrestrial ports and infrastructures - it has found Sophie Guillain - generate important environmental impacts, this are sure. For this reason it is necessary in the first place to establish a dialogue with the population. It is necessary that this dialogue is constant and effective and believes that the public debate can be a good starting point in order to promote between the citizens the knowledge of the importance of having a competitive port".

To conclusion of the debate the responsibles of the public initiative have delivered in the hands to the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti, a containing document of 70 pages suggestions and observations. The final relation of the debate, available in the section "Download" of the www.dibattitoinporto.it site, will be published on the Gazette of the Tuscany Region in August. Within November the Harbour Authority will have the task to answer to such considerations, being expressed own official position.