The Delegate for La Herradura, Juan J. Ruiz Joya called a press meeting this morning at the Centro Rio Jate to speak about the controversial paseo project and the alleged loss of the funding.
Sr Ruiz Joya said that he had attended a meeting with provincial authorities, concerning the project that the ex-mayor had presented in a plenary meeting in 2008 and the nine million euros that were supposedly lost when the the then opposition parties rejected the project because of its compulsory purchase conditions – the PP consider the disruption to 1st-line property was too great. Subsequently, the ex-Mayor’s part (CA) repeatedly accused the PP of wasting the funds and job opportunities.
In this meeting Sr Ruiz Joya says that he was very surprised to learn that no paseo project had ever been approved by higher authorities, even though Sr Benavides had presented it as sign and dusted at the said plenary meeting.
Therefore, Sr. Ruiz Joya feels that Sr Benavides might have seriously misled both opposition council members and the residents of La Herradura with this “negative campaign” against the PP.
When asked where this figure could have come from, he said that the provincial department of the Ministry of the Environment had a permanent fund for coastal projects for the whole the Spanish coastline but that no funds had ever been alloted for the said paseo project in La Herradura because the project had never their received seal of approval.
Sr Ruiz Joya says they will work towards presenting an acceptable project to the ministry and trusts that a change in both the regional and national governments, come the next elections, will bring about positive developments.
The Gazette asked what the situation was with the private underground car park under Plaza Nueva and Sr Joya answered that it was operating but that the Town Hall did not agree with its operating hours; i.e., closing at 9pm every evening. He considered that during the summer at least it should be operating 24 hours a day.
(News: La Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)