The City Council considers the decision taken by Real Madrid to suspend concerts in the stadium until at least next April to be opportune. This was stated in a statement, in which it also indicated that this postponement will allow that when the activity resumes, the improvement works are already carried out to reduce the inconvenience and noise.
The decision to suspend the concerts was taken by the White Club “after the numerous meetings that took place to implement the necessary measures to minimize the inconvenience of these events for the neighbors,” they explained to the City Hall.
Thus, “the postponement of the concerts will ensure that when this activity resumes, the interventions announced last summer will have been carried out,” the press release concludes.
Continued complaints from neighbors have forced the sports entity to carry out additional work since last June to obtain more effective soundproofing and comply with the noise ordinance. But a legal battle was already underway between the residents of the neighborhood and the white club.
It should be remembered that Madrid signed a 360 million euro contract with the investment groups Sixth Street and Legends Hospitality, in which 70% of the profits from events held in the stadium must go directly to the white coffers. But also, the fines imposed on promoters have not stopped; the latest case, that of the Aventura concert, a week ago, despite a limited schedule, until eleven at night.
This suspension means that the events of Music Bank, a K-Pop festival (October 12), Dellafuente (November 15), Aitana (December 28 and 29) and Lola Índigo (March 22) will be postponed to other dates. The Catalan announced last night that her recitals would be moved to June 27 and 28, on the same stage. The priority is to resolve the acoustic problems of the concerts at the Bernabéu and, although Madrid hopes that these six months will be enough to fix them, no one can guarantee that this will be the case.
Inmaculada Ramos, lawyer and secretary of the Neighborhood Initiative for the Defense of the Environment and Against the Paseo de La Habana-Padre Damián Tunnel, considers that this is “at least a temporary achievement”: “It means knowing that during these remaining months there will be no concerts, there will not be such an influx of traffic, there will not be noise that far exceeds the permitted decibels.
