No 966 Tuesday 11th - Sunday 16th April 2023
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TO R REV I E J A’ S R E S I D E N T I A L PA R A D I S E O R A B A N D O N E D U R B A N S AT I O N S ?
f you follow Torrevieja town hall on social media, you will not have missed any of the pre-election activity about how the town is being improved.
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“We are replacing road signs”, “we are painting the road markings”, “we are renewing pavements”, “we are tending to the gardens”, etc, but the stark reality is, once you cross the border of the N-332 and leave the town centre, entering into the surrounding urbanisations, a very different picture is painted, a picture that highlights decades of neglect. The residents of the Torretas urbanisation, which borders on the natural park, plays host to the lagoons, was built in the 1980’s, and of course it houses the derelict health spa costing millions to build, have all been waiting decades for their infrastructure to be repaired. Last week, they were given a dim light at the end of their very dark tunnel, as a “project” was announced by the town hall to look at the problems of the infrastructure. It should be pointed out however that a project is nothing more than a costly exercise to look at ‘if or what improvements can be made’, and, although it is the first step, it is still a long way from actually providing results. The projects themselves cost thousands, usually, but the work identified can run into millions. Another scheme announced by the mayor, Eduardo Dolón, is for the creation of a new green area in the Sector 25 urbanisation, although, as if to prove the point of that invisible border, only on the coastal side of the N-332. Then, if we continue along the CV-905, we come to Jardin Del Mar, built in the late 1990’s. It is an area prone to flooding, where the residents live in fear of the next bout of heavy rain, and although there has been activity in recent years to divert the water when it falls, nothing has succeeded, which highlights the problems of building on unsuitable land.
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