Firstly I was able to spend some time with Candido today. Firstly he wanted to show off the works at the 'green' area at the back of the Dizu houses. It is almost complete. The workmen working on it currently are those provided by the unemployment office and they should be finished by the end of the month. Candido and I discussed the additional features to install in the area (which is a lot bigger than I thought at first). We have agreed to do a lot more planting including trees in the larger expanses and some contrasting gravel there as well. We are also to install about 10 benches along the pathway. We discussed whether it was worthwhile putting in a picnic area but I gave my view against. I felt that such a facility would only encourage youngsters to congregate in the evenings. Candido agreed. I also suggested we need to place dog mess waste bins along the pathway and he agreed. These features together with the additional planting will be added over the next couple of months.
I then asked if we could apply any pressure to the Diputacion to complete the asphalt surfacing of Avenida Poetas. This had been agreed in the Local Plan in 2010/11 and people were fed up waiting. Candido was able to report that although not 100% it looks as though the contract will be awarded to 'Nila' very shortly and it should therefore be complete before much longer! certainly before the end of the year but maybe sooner.
I asked what the continuing problem was with the WiFi. He explained that they had had another problem emanating from the changeover to Vodafone. However, he had today completed work with the telepony engineers and could report that the as from today the system should be much more stable. The download speed will be very slightly slower but the upload speed will be much faster. So things should show an immediate improvement.
I reported the street lights which had been reported as out of order and as usual he listed them for the TH workmen to check. It is important to mention that in one case (Calle Nervion) it would appear that someone for some reason keeps switching them off. They are going to try and find a way to stop this happening.
I am going to meet with Candido tomorrow to progress the street plans by visiting the printers and case makers.
Now the bad news. There had to be some! The problem with the state of Calle Irlanda on Cuesta de los Pinos. I had spoken to Candido about that this morning but I was unaware until our meeting tonight that there was a petition from the residents affected by this road. Basically this road will be repaired along with all the others, although it will be given priority due to the situation, however, it would be pointless doing anything with the road until the sewerage pipes which run under this area are repaired/replaced. It would obviously need to be dug up again to do this work. Additionally the money for the repairs for this road have to come from the Junta and we have not, as yet, received any of the money we have requested for these type of repairs. The only good point is that the work has now commenced on the repairs to the sewerage system and the first 75m of the new pipe work has been delivered and a machine which can clear the blocked pipes, without us having to replace them, are also working on the pipework. The next larger amount of piping will be delivered next week.
Now lastly the Diputacions' and the THs' local plan for 2013 has been received and subject to a few amendments should be passed in Pleno in the next 2 to 3 months. BUT bear in mind that the project for Avenida Poetas was received in 2010/11!
Included in this plan are the following,
Asphalt surfacing of the following roads,
In Los Menchones, Calle Isaac Newton, Galileo Gellie, Ramon y Cajer
Barrio de Chicago, Avenida de las Canarias and the road (which many of us use as a short cut) from the main road throughLa Alfoquia across the main road by Cats offices and along into Barrio de Chicago.
In Los Llanos, Calle Nerva, Luis Cernuda, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Pedro Salinas, Joaquin Costa, Miguel Hernandez and a couple of others whose names I have lost.
In Cucador, Calle Galicia from the junction with the main road up to the fork, Calle Extremadura
In Cuesta de los Pinos, Calle Moldavia, the road from Calle Malta to Brians house (can't think of the name) and the stretch of road just past La Vida where there is a dig dip in the road following the paving.
I may well have missed some roads but I think these are the main ones.
Other projects in the plan are the Bowling Green in La Alfoquia and various works to the schools in the area.
Lastly the water problems being experienced by many people in the La Alfoquia area continues. It was explained to me that the reason for the problem is that the reservoir that serves this area was destroyed in the floods last year. The result is that whenever they have to cut of the water anywhere else there is no reserve to keep the pressure up and supply water to these areas. With the result that Andreas gets his water no problem bu Candido and many of the residents up by the pool bar do not! Galasa has been working on it for for over a month now and it is hoped they will complete the work in the next couple of weeks.
Just an interesting point which I discovered as a result of the research I had asked Manolo to do for the British Consulate and that is that the percentage of families in Zurgena municipality form the various countries shows that, according to the Padron, is almost 59.38% Spanish and almost 39.71% British. Other nationalities make up the remainder.
As usual any questions just email me at the adress above.
I then asked if we could apply any pressure to the Diputacion to complete the asphalt surfacing of Avenida Poetas. This had been agreed in the Local Plan in 2010/11 and people were fed up waiting. Candido was able to report that although not 100% it looks as though the contract will be awarded to 'Nila' very shortly and it should therefore be complete before much longer! certainly before the end of the year but maybe sooner.
I asked what the continuing problem was with the WiFi. He explained that they had had another problem emanating from the changeover to Vodafone. However, he had today completed work with the telepony engineers and could report that the as from today the system should be much more stable. The download speed will be very slightly slower but the upload speed will be much faster. So things should show an immediate improvement.
I reported the street lights which had been reported as out of order and as usual he listed them for the TH workmen to check. It is important to mention that in one case (Calle Nervion) it would appear that someone for some reason keeps switching them off. They are going to try and find a way to stop this happening.
I am going to meet with Candido tomorrow to progress the street plans by visiting the printers and case makers.
Now the bad news. There had to be some! The problem with the state of Calle Irlanda on Cuesta de los Pinos. I had spoken to Candido about that this morning but I was unaware until our meeting tonight that there was a petition from the residents affected by this road. Basically this road will be repaired along with all the others, although it will be given priority due to the situation, however, it would be pointless doing anything with the road until the sewerage pipes which run under this area are repaired/replaced. It would obviously need to be dug up again to do this work. Additionally the money for the repairs for this road have to come from the Junta and we have not, as yet, received any of the money we have requested for these type of repairs. The only good point is that the work has now commenced on the repairs to the sewerage system and the first 75m of the new pipe work has been delivered and a machine which can clear the blocked pipes, without us having to replace them, are also working on the pipework. The next larger amount of piping will be delivered next week.
Now lastly the Diputacions' and the THs' local plan for 2013 has been received and subject to a few amendments should be passed in Pleno in the next 2 to 3 months. BUT bear in mind that the project for Avenida Poetas was received in 2010/11!
Included in this plan are the following,
Asphalt surfacing of the following roads,
In Los Menchones, Calle Isaac Newton, Galileo Gellie, Ramon y Cajer
Barrio de Chicago, Avenida de las Canarias and the road (which many of us use as a short cut) from the main road throughLa Alfoquia across the main road by Cats offices and along into Barrio de Chicago.
In Los Llanos, Calle Nerva, Luis Cernuda, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Pedro Salinas, Joaquin Costa, Miguel Hernandez and a couple of others whose names I have lost.
In Cucador, Calle Galicia from the junction with the main road up to the fork, Calle Extremadura
In Cuesta de los Pinos, Calle Moldavia, the road from Calle Malta to Brians house (can't think of the name) and the stretch of road just past La Vida where there is a dig dip in the road following the paving.
I may well have missed some roads but I think these are the main ones.
Other projects in the plan are the Bowling Green in La Alfoquia and various works to the schools in the area.
Lastly the water problems being experienced by many people in the La Alfoquia area continues. It was explained to me that the reason for the problem is that the reservoir that serves this area was destroyed in the floods last year. The result is that whenever they have to cut of the water anywhere else there is no reserve to keep the pressure up and supply water to these areas. With the result that Andreas gets his water no problem bu Candido and many of the residents up by the pool bar do not! Galasa has been working on it for for over a month now and it is hoped they will complete the work in the next couple of weeks.
Just an interesting point which I discovered as a result of the research I had asked Manolo to do for the British Consulate and that is that the percentage of families in Zurgena municipality form the various countries shows that, according to the Padron, is almost 59.38% Spanish and almost 39.71% British. Other nationalities make up the remainder.
As usual any questions just email me at the adress above.
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