CONSTRUCTION WITHOUT CONSCIENCE PART 2

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All local residents living along Orihuela Costa will be all too aware that the construction industry is again seeing a re-emergence with large building sites springing up on vacant land throughout the region.

Some of these building projects are very large and all are high density, so it is a reasonable proposition to envisage that the resident population of the coast will increase if these properties are successfully sold.

I seriously question whether the planning authority based thirty kilometres away in Orihuela have really analysed the consequences of an increase in residents living on the Costa. Simple calculations demonstrate that any increase in the Orihuela Costa population will put additional strains on the inadequate infrastructure and limited council services available on the coast.

Take for example the effects of thirty additional families with school age children. Just thirty five additional children would require one extra classroom and school teacher. Where would you accommodate additional classrooms? Already primary schools are so full that half the areas’ school children are forced to be taught in sub standard portacabins. An extra seventy primary school children would require a further two temporary classrooms.

If these were erected on the existing Los Dolces portacabins site valuable playground space would be lost. The situation is even worst when we consider an increase of seventy secondary school children. The present prefabricated Instituto is already over crowded with virtually no playground space or sports facilities. On the present site it would be impossible to erect even one additional classroom.

Simple mathematics determines number of additional classrooms required if more families choose to make Orihuela Costa there home!

Looking at the other end of the age spectrum what effects would an increase in retired residents have? Well it is a well known fact that there are virtually no services for older people on Orihuela Costa.

However it is a certainty that the huge influx of retired residents that moved here during the late 1990’s are ageing and with time will become increasingly immobile and dependent. They will require care services, day care and even residential care, all services that are conspicuous by there absence.

Many people will die here and require burial but they will be unable to be interred in the municipality they lived in as there is no cemetery on the Costa and there are absolutely no plans or intentions by the Orihuela based councillors to provide one! For the majority of retirees residing on Orihuela Costa when they immigrated to Spain they had every intention to be permanent residents.

The majority of residents have no second home in their country of origin; they sold up their belongings and made what they believed to be a total commitment to live out their remaining days in Spain. Consequently there is a desperate need to provide essential service for the older population already living here and this need will be magnified many times if the number of older people increases.

It is totally irresponsible that the Orihuela based Planning Authority give permissions to constructors to build thousands of additional homes without planning, providing and financing the services people require when live in them. As long as Orihuela Costa fails to have adequate political representation on the council we will continue to witness construction without a conscience.

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