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Claro slams local government over Costa parks Orihuela Costa political party Claro is shaming the local government for not doing enough to maintain municipal parks and green spaces on Orihuela Costa.
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he complaint comes after the Town Hall, controlled by the PP and Ciudadanos turned down a
joint motion from Claro and Cambiemos at the last plenary meeting asking for the proper maintenance and upkeep. Claro claim that for the last 10 years the residents of Orihuela Costa have never had ‘real’ parks and gardens and there has been very poor service on its maintenance of those it did have. This is in direct contrast to the centre of Orihuela where residents have been enjoying beautiful parks and gardens,
With indignation we could see the two Coordinators for the coast turn their back on defending the rights of the residents of the coast. Rather than abstaining they voted with their respective parties.
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private contract for maintenance but only 50 percent of the more than 110 so called parks in Orihuela Costa are being serviced. In contrast, The town of Torrevieja also had poor service maintenance of its green areas, as 26 green areas were not covered and therefore not maintained, but thanks to a law passed in Spain in 2015, they are all now in excellent condition. This law obliges municipalities to keep all parks of the municipality maintained even if they were previously kept by the builders or were private and but are now open to the public. The Torrevieja Local Government approved in its May plenary to extend the contract on the maintenance service for all of its city parks with an additional amount of 500,000 euros. Claro, being well aware of the historical deficiency of services here in the coast, presented the motion would finally Continued on page 6
which is usual in most cities in Spain. Realising the sorry state of its green areas on the Coast, in 2009 it awarded a
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