Parks in Orihuela Costa

Parks in Orihuela Costa

It is always a pleasure to read that our ruling party PP is going to invest x millions of Euros in the green areas of Orihuela Costa to make them more attractive.
We all know that there is no money and that we have a big crisis, but it does not need millions to keep our existing green areas in good conditions. Back in 2007 Los Verdes made a proposition to use only local plants in public parks which do not need watering and only need little care. Many plants are growing wild and, if cut down to 10cm would be a wonderful coverage for the ground, keep the soil in place when it rains and also look nice. But what does the PP do? Spray the whole ground once or twice a year with chemicals and than pull everything out and leave a naked and empty piece of land where the rain takes the soil away and the wind does the rest. This happens in the El Galan park which at the present moment is “tidy”. See picture on the left. The upper part of this area belongs to San Miguel. The picture to the right .
Los Verdes will request to the ruling PP that the decisions of 2007 are put into action and that the parks are kept with natural plants, leaving them green and avoiding to spray chemicals and pull out everything.

We are also at the moment checking the conditions of the other parks which are officially maintained by the Town Hall. Los Verdes do fully support the complain and proposition from other opposition parties regarding the La Regia park.
To our big surprise, on the last pleno of 27th of April the proposition of CLR to improve the condition of the La Regia Park was accepted, but councillor Aniorte also stated that the La Regia Park “is not abandoned”, that it “costs 1.700€ per month to maintain it” and he also pointed out that 23.000.-€ have been invested there in the last 3 years…………….(there where???) I suggest you all go to see this park, walk through it, let your children play or better not as it is too dangerous, try to play futbol, look well around and try to imagine where 23.000.- € have been spent…….
But we are very pleased that our ruling party PP did accept to improve the conditions of that park and we will keep an eye on it to see if this promise becomes reality in the near future.