Last Nights Meeting

Firstly thanks to all those who managed to get to the meeting last night it was another excellent turnout, I would guess at between 160 and 180 people.

After introductions, from myself and Mike Foulkes, Candido made the main presentation during which he mentioned some of the lies being told by opposition parties but concentrated on the achievements of the past 4 years. He then briefly listed all the planned intentions of the Partido Andalucista for the coming term should they win a majority again. It was quite impressive hearing the full list of things done.

He then went on to reveal the situation with regard to the outstanding Court cases and in his preamble emphasised that all properties in Zurgena are legal. He then revealed the latest case to be decided by the Court of Appeal in Granada and that was in relation to the houses built in Los Menchones. The Town Halls solicitors have also now won that case (he had only been informed this morning) but even more important was the fact that the court has ruled the Junta cannot take this case to the final court of appeal as it would fail. We feel therefore that all the outstanding cases will go the same way.

We then had, what I thought was an excellent presentation by the architect of the PGOU Francisco Salvadore. He is totally apolitical, as his work on this plan, has at various times over many years, involved differing political parties. He explained the process which has to be gone through to achieve an agreed plan and how and what he had done for us to get to the stage where every house in the municipality would either be on urban land or covered by a sub section of the law which covers the odd houses which lie outside to the Towns plan. In the final event every house will be standing in a legal situation when the plan is signed off. He confirmed that verbal agreement to all the content has been obtained with the Junta and the final sign off he expects to be within 5 to 6 months. He then took questions from the floor and whilst he endeavoured to answer those questions in a simple way for all to understand it seemed that some of the attendees would prefer that their houses were declared illegal as they did not seem to want to hear the facts. However a few of those present were able to get clarification of various points and the architect stated that if anyone had any concerns or issues that they could inform Luiz in the Town Hal who can always contact him.

I was disappointed to see one of the P.P. take the microphone to castigate our interpreter for no good reason other, I suspect, than to try and raise his profile but I am afraid the opposite occurred as people took a dim view of his action.

As the meeting ended for refreshments I spoke to many people who all thanked us for an informative and excellent meeting which helped them more fully understand the true nature of where we are with the plan (instead of the rubbish being talked about by other political parties)

As a result of the number of queries I had last night about how to access the PGOU on the Town Hals website I have reprinted below the process by which you can access it.

s a start the P.G.O.U. is accessible through the Town Hall website. Due to the structure of the site I am finding it difficulty to identify a direct link for me to put on here to the actual page. However, to save time for those wanting to check it out asap if you to www.zurgena.es and then down the left hand side there is a 'tablon de anuncios' button click on that icon then on the next page 'normas' followed by 2011 and then PGOU.