One of the first measures adopted by the new mayor angel Nozal when he took over the Mijas Town Hall was to crack down on the growing number of advertising billboards which in some places damaged the image of the municipality offers to tourists. The majority of the 600 billboards counted had no licence, not even on municipal land. Immediately steps were taken to remove the advertising on public land and to initiate action against those on private lands but with no licence.
Mijas Town Hall is starting a campaign to encourage residents to recycle more household waste in a bid to save over 2 million euros a year of Town Hall funds. The new Mayor, Ángel Nozal, who has made it a mission to cut municipal costs, confirms that by separating waste and depositing it correctly in the various recycling containers located throughout the municipality, the Town Hall could save considerable sum when the waste is treated.
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The electricity company, Endesa, has been sending out letters to the owners of ‘irregular properties with temporary electricity metres. The letter states that the Mijas property owners have 30 days to present documentation to the Mijas Town Hall on the legality of their property or their supply could be affected.
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The local administration in Mijas has announced that it will be opening an office to deal specifically with the problem of buildings which have fallen foul of town planning regulations and are now considered to be “irregular”. The office will be in Mijas Pueblo, though not in the Town Hall itself, and will be staffed by legal and administrative experts whose mission will be to create a framework for changes in the law and to carry out any procedures needed to enable property owners to legalise their homes.
The recently elected Partido Popular, who now leads the Mijas council, have announced that the Town Hall is to launch a series of measures under a new “embellishment plan” to improve the look of the historic and popular white village.
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According to sources, Mijas new Town Planning Councillor initial focus will be on the development of the municipality’s new business park and finding a solution to the irregular houses, that although built illegally were bought in good faith.
Having been operation since 1914, the El Puerto Quarry has finally closed in Mijas Pueblo. Sando, the company formerly responsible for the quarry has confirmed the “full restoration and reforestation” of the 170,000 square metre plot and has handed it to the Town Hall.
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In recent days, works on the busy one kilometre stretch of the Mijas-Fuengirola road near the A-7 exit have come to a stop.
According to the trade union Comisions Obreras de Malaga, workers on the site have downed tolls following the contractor, Profasán’s, “liquidity problems” which has resulted in their members not having been paid their full salary in several months.
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Many car-owning residents in Las Lagunas, Mijas Costa, have started the New Year with a sense of disappointment following the news that the Town Hall will now not be constructing the promised underground car parks in the area.
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A project has been completed to return several beaches of Mijas to their “natural state” with the planting of many indigenous species of fauna found in the Mediterranean forests and the removal of non-native plants.
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Some 600,000 people are forecast to arrive this year in Malaga on cruise ships and the Mijas Tourism Department is on a mission to have as many of them as possible visit the famously well-preserved white ‘pueblo’ on day trips.
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This week, the PSOE in Mijas, the municipality’s ruling party, has highlighted the Town Hall’s commitment in moving businesses in the La Vega Industrial Estate, which floods every time there is a heavy rain, to the planned technology park, to be built in La Alberquilla. A spokesman said to date some 400 companies have expressed their willingness to move
Sur in English: December 31st to January 6th 2010
Following years of campaigning by local residents and business owners. Calypso in Mijas Costa is to have its street market resumed in early 2011, it has been announced.
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To the south, the A-7 and to the north, the AP-7. In the middle are dozens of urbanisations along the whole length of Mijas, some of them very close to the constant flow of vehicles.
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The Town Hall has announced almost half a million euros has been allocated to a comprehensive refurbishment programme of the street lighting in the Las Lagunas district. “Thousands of citizens in the neighbourhood will benefit,” says the Mayor of Mijas, Antonio Sánchez.
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Ana Román, Councillor for Public Services, has announced that in the first five months of this year, 43 key projects to improve roads and public spaces have been carried out within the municipality.
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The Town Hall and the Junta de Andalucía are working together to construct a strategic breakwater wall in order to protect the riverbank along Arroyo Real in La Cala. “The riverbank and surrounding areas were severely damaged by the heavy rain at the beginning of the year,” says a project spokesman.
Source: Sur in English, May 14th to May 20th 2010
The Ministry of the Environment in Madrid has given the go ahead to a 14 kilometre network network of pipes that will harness the flow of water from the treatment plant at Cerro de Águila, so that recycled water can be used to irrigate parks and golf courses in Mijas and Fuengirola.
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The project to “environmentally restore” El Puerto de Mijas Quarry is noew entering its final stages. Despite being granted an extension until June to complete the project, the company, Sando, say they are ahead of schedule and it will be finished within six weeks.
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