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Issue 575
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22 - 28 OCTOBER 2010
Burn your bodies elsewhere
Residents are deeply concerned about the site of the proposed crematorium
THAT IS the message that dozens of residents in Puerto de Mazarrón are sending to the Mazarron Town Hall after they learned that a crematorium and a medical incineration centre was going to be built in the heart of their urbanisation. The El Alcolar urbanisation is right in the heart of the Port and the permanent home to hundreds of residents of all nationalities. The site of the proposed crematorium
by Louise Clarke is just 20 metres from the nearest property and 200 metres from the beachfront, a Mecca for tourists during the summer season. According to the Council’s ‘Plan Parcial’ that plot of land was allocated for entertainment, a social club or religious building. It was certainly never allocated as place to incinerate the dead. And fur-
thermore, residents say that the Town Hall has not even adopted the urbanisation yet, so how can they dictate what is going to be on it? “That’s just what I need while I’m lying on my terrace in the summer; to see the smoke of the dead,” commented one resident. The crematorium would be literally metres away from the local community swimming pool. One resident said: “Can you just im-
agine what grieving relatives would be thinking when, during the service, all they can hear are the wails and screams of kids splashing in the pool opposite?” “And can you imagine,” commented another, “coming out of the crematorium, stricken with grief, only to see women in bikinis and men in their Speedos. It’s hardly appropriate is it? It just doesn’t make sense.” continued on page 3