The Asociación de Residentes de Urbanizaciones de Almuñécar y La Herradura (ARUALH) is annoyed with the Town Hall, because of "years of being ignored."

For this reason they invite representatives from each party that is going to participate in the elections to visit them and explain what their election pledges are, explained the Chairman of ARUALH, Alfredo Archilla.

Sick and tired of paying local taxes (IBI) over decades without receiving in exchange practically any municipal services. They also point out that the Town Hall has hiked IBI by 31% in recent years. The Town Hall hasn’t carried out any maintenance or updating of infrastructure, reads their association’s communiqué.

Insufficient public lighting, insufficient road cleaning, badly potholed roads, water-mains and sewage-drainage defects and inexistent contingency plans for torrencial rains or fires, are just some of the things mentioned in the communiqué.

And all this, despite the successive court sentences handed down against the Town Hall by the Regional High Court, ordering them to take responsibility for the urbanizaciones within the municipality — court sentences that have been ignored.

The Town Hall’s attempt to create a new PGOU (General Urban Development Plan) under the title, Áreas de Mejora Urbana (AMU) was drawn up without consulting the affected urbanizaciones, grouping some of them together when they have completely different needs. The document is plagued by errors in general, the association considers.

The worst aspect of the AMU is that the Town Hall reportedly intends to make the urbanizaciones themselves pay for it, they say. The Chairman says that they have heard that the AMU has received thousands of objections, none of which are being considered, three years into the initiation of the urban-development plan.

Editorial comment: you can add to this list of court sentences ignored the one which ordered the Town Hall to demolish the unfinished building structure at the entrance to Almuñécar coming from La Herradura on the N-340. The Supreme Court’s sentence is final, meaning their can be no further appeal yet for at least a year the Town Hall has done absolutely nothing about it. Could it have something to do with the fact that the building is owned by the family of – PP councillor from a previous Town Council line up?

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