Barcelona City Council has launched a participatory process to begin designing, with residents, the future central park of La Clota. This initiative responds to a long-standing demand from the neighborhood, located in the Horta-Guinardó district. The objective is to create a space for dialogue with collectives, entities, and expert voices to integrate local knowledge into the development of the daily environment.
The participatory process debate sessions will start this autumn, with the expectation that proposals will be finalized during the first quarter of 2027. The area of action is a zone that preserves rural and agricultural vestiges, elements that the City Council aims to integrate and protect in the future park, listening to the criteria of residents and entities.
The district's councilor, Sara Belbeida, highlighted the importance of this process for the future of La Clota, which will allow progress in defining the Central Park and reviewing the planning of the La Clota-Conservació area. "We want to do this through dialogue with residents, preserving the neighborhood's agricultural, landscape, and heritage memory, and incorporating current criteria of sustainability, inclusion, and urban quality," she stated.
This large area, yet to be developed urbanistically, situated between the avenues Cardenal Vidal i Barraquer, Estatut, and carrer Lisboa, presents a complex topography and retains landscape elements such as streams, orchards, trees, and medieval paths, as well as unique buildings. The creation of a green space of approximately 4.6 hectares is planned.
The new green space aims to be a connection point between the different areas of the neighborhood, currently partially isolated by the topography. Work will focus on defining the path network to cross this area and enhance existing landscape elements. The park's design will be in the hands of the residents through a working group created to gather ideas and proposals, particularly regarding the conservation of the surrounding elements.
The general criteria for the park's design include a terraced park, a diverse network of routes, play and sports areas, integrated water systems, spaces for biodiversity with native fauna and vegetation, and resting areas such as a large green amphitheater and an educational greenhouse.
Concurrently, the working group will review and redefine the area of "la Clota conservació", near carrer Lisboa. This urban plan, existing for two decades, requires an update to adapt it to current needs, preserving the old urban fabric and establishing criteria for sustainability, inclusive urbanism, and gender perspective, as well as viable development of protected and free housing.
