Motril Town Hall is carrying out work in the Barrio del Cerillo, next to the Rambla los Álamos, providing a parking area.

Actually, the project, which has a budget of 116,000 euros and will affect 1,500 sq/m of land, is twofold: provide suitable parking and solve flooding problems caused by a defective drainage of rainwater. As the barrio is lower than the rest of the town on that side, everybody else’s rainwater heads their way.

The area will be cleared, flattened, tarmacked and then marked out with painted parking slots. The said land has, up until now, be used as an improvised dirt-surface parking area, which quickly converts into a mud bath after rainfall.

The Mayor, Luisa García Chamorro said that the works is in answer to a longstanding request by locals in the barrio because the streets are so narrow that people can’t park in front of their houses, which don’t have garages, by the way.

Editorial comment: Yet again, funds that should be used in the campo, providing employment, is being used in urban areas; i.e., the Plan de Fomento del Empleo Agrario (PFEA). This highly questionable practice is not restricted to Motril.

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