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Greener Puntalón

The Vice-Mayor, Nicolás Navarro, has been paying a visit to the Puntalón area, accompanied by the councillor in charge of it, Concepción Navarro, to check out how the gardening work is going.

Medical Centre for Motril Port

The 3,500 residents of Varadero and Santa Adela near Motril Port now have a small medical centre with five doctors’ surgeries, which is two more than they had in the old Casa del Mar. This new centre is fruit of co-ooperation between the Town Hall, the Junta de Andalucia and the EU: Motril built the…

Casa Garach

The Motril Town Council has approved a change to the building category of the historic and centric building known as Casa Garach, which will allow it to be turned into a hotel.

Palms Relocated

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.

Barrio Espinar Facelift

The new team at the Town Hall wheel are keen to leave their mark on La Herradura, which can been seen with the recent activity in Barrio Espinar.

First of all, the steps that lead from the barrio up to Camino Real are having new paving stones laid. Secondly, the little gardens are being tidied up and replanted and finally the walls that run down the stream bed have been re-painted.

Almuñécar Negotiates Hotels

The new municipal administration is working on modifications to its urban-development paperwork in an attempt to get the Junta de Andalucia to allow the 5-star hotel in Santa Cruz, Sebastian to open. The Hotel Cercado de Santa Cruz has been inactive for the last four years, although 75% complete, owing to terrain-qualification irregularities.

Appeal Quashed

The driver who tried to run down three Guardia Civil policemen has had his seven years’ imprisonment upheld by the Supreme Court after his appeal failed.

House Prices Continue Descent

On a provincial level, the average price for dwellings is still falling. The average price per square metre over the province of Granada stood at 1,697 euros in November, which is almost 9% lower than November 2010.

Record Unemployment in Salobreña

The IU councillor, Ángel Coello will present a motion in the next plenary meeting of the Town Council to create an employment plan and job reserve as a means of combating rising unemployment in the town, which presently stands as 1,558. “There are many families that have used up all their unemployment benefit entitlement and…