The locals who live in the Residencial Arenas de Poniente on Playa de Poniente in Motril are not happy bunnies over the narrow street that runs alongside.

There is a wall in a shabby condition that runs down the side of the alley that make this access point too narrow for emergency vehicles, like fire trucks and ambulances, so they want that eyesore demolished and removed.

So annoyed are they, that the Chairwoman of the block-community association has chained herself to a palm tree, and says that she wont budge until the Town Hall promises to do something about it rapidly. After all, they have been complaining about the situation for the last 20 years, so enough is enough.

The said Chairwoman, María Jesús Granados Jiménez, symbollically chained herself to the tree at seven o’clock yesterday morning. Admittedly, she doesn’t have to be double jointed nor Houdini to escape her chains because they appear to be loosely drapped adornments rather than fool-proof restraint.

Now, she’s not alone because 19 neighbours have joined her, so there is quite a group sitting beneath their protest banner. The apartment complex, by the way, has 119 dwellings within it.

“We’ve spent 20 years protesting about this situation but nobody listens to us,” said the Chairwoman, adding that if there is a fire, fire trucks can’t reach the problem, and the same goes for if somebody suffers a medical emergency – the ambulance has to park a hundred-or-so metres away

Summing up, what they want is for the Town Hall to carry out what is stipulated in the PGOU of 2003, which envisaged widening the lane, giving access to emergency vehicles.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Still from Ideal video report)

Tags: Residencial Arena, Playa Poniente, Lane Too Narrow, Emergency Vehicles, Chained to a Tree