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Sant Adrià secures the future of the tennis club before creating a riverside park
The Club de Tennis de Sant Adrià de Besòs will continue to operate with legal guarantees as long as it remains active. The City Council has proposed an urban planning formula that protects the current sporting use of the facilities, but also prepares the site’s future as a large green park by the river.
The proposal is part of the City Council’s submissions to the new Plan Director Urbanístico Metropolitano. The aim is to avoid uncertainty for members, users, and sports organisations, ensuring that the courts remain recognised as local facilities while the club stays open.
Change will only come when sporting activity ends for good. At that point, the land will automatically become part of a park of social and environmental interest, extending the green frontage on the left bank of the Besòs closer to its mouth.
The plan seeks to balance two different needs. On one hand, to maintain a sports space that is part of daily life in the municipality. On the other, to reserve land for long-term environmental transformation in an area that for decades has been shaped by infrastructure, industry, and a lack of green spaces.
The plan does not only affect the club’s courts. The City Council also wants the land along the Rambleta promenade and the strips between the sports facilities and the river to be designated as public park, strengthening the continuity of the future green corridor.
The focus is on 2050—a long-term horizon, but an important one for planning the city in advance. Sant Adrià wants the Besòs to stop being a hard boundary and become a space for health, walking, sport, and connection with other metropolitan municipalities.
Mayor Filo Cañete frames this strategy as part of a broader transformation of the municipality. Reclaiming land for public use adds to other longstanding demands, such as calming the C-31 or dismantling the TERSA incinerator.
For many residents, the Club de Tennis de Sant Adrià is more than just a sports facility. It is a meeting point, a neighbourhood routine, and a space that has survived urban changes in an area heavily shaped by major infrastructure.
That is why the City Council is not proposing an immediate replacement. The idea is not to close the club to make a park, but to guarantee its continuity while it is active and to ensure that, when that stage ends, the land is not left available for any use, but specifically for public green space.
The future of the Besòs riverbank will be shaped by decisions like this. Sant Adrià wants to gain green areas without suddenly erasing spaces that are already part of local life. The challenge will be to ensure that the transition does not pit sport against nature, but allows the city to care for what it has today while preparing a healthier environment for future generations.