Locals in Almuñécar will have noticed that Town Hall workers from the garden and parks maintenance department, have taken away a number of full-grown palm trees along Calle Pablo Iglesias. The reason for this is because they are literally destroying the pavement, thanks to their ever-increasing girth.

The Councillor for Obras y Mantenimiento, José Manuel Fernández Medina, assured tree lovers that the palms have been replanted on the Cuesta de Godoy, whilst the paving on Calle Pablo Iglesias has been sorted out.

It wasn’t easy to get these 20-year-old trees out of the ground, onto a lorry and unloaded before replanting, as the whole operation required heavy machinery, but now the palms are adorning a roadside, rather than invading windows and terraces with their palm fronds.

One apartment owner along Calle Pablo Iglesias commented, “Now we can open the windows and even see the sun, because the palms were so big and close together it was like living in a cave.”

The Councillor for the Environment, Luis Aragón, expects some flak from other political parties and/or ecologists but believes that the Town Hall has done the only logical thing possible; i.e., attend to the requests from residents along Calle Pablo Iglesias, as the trees had grown out of all proportion to their original location.

Luis Aragón explained that the said street will not be left bereft of adorning vegetation and that it is possible that orange trees or similar non-intrusive ones will be planted there.

Right, and for those of you who don’t know the streets by their names, Pablo Iglesias is the one where Restaurante Yerba Buena sits on the corner just across from where many people buy their roast chickens.

As for the Cuesta de Godoy, this is the steep hill road leading up from behind Las Gondolas up to Los Pinos.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

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