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Marbella to benefit from more than half of Junta’s 4,000 million euro plan for the Costa del Sol
Last post 18-01-2008, 21:23 by notthat. 0 replies.
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Marbella to benefit from more than half of Junta’s 4,000 million euro plan for the Costa del Sol
Over the next six years some 2,500 million euros are to be spent on projects that will either directly or indirectly affect the municipality
The regional authority wants to make up for the absence of spending over the last 15 years when the GIL councils refused to provide the land
 The Junta de Andalucía’s “Plan Integral” for the Costa del Sol has a budget of around 4,000 million euros of which more than half will be spent in the municipality of Marbella. This major investment on the part of the regional government will come in the form of services and other infrastructure that Marbella lacks after 15 years of disagreement between the Town Hall and the regional government.
The plan includes a long list of projects due to take place between now and 2013. The total spending envisaged for Marbella amounts to 2,536 million euros, although some of the schemes will also benefit neighbouring municipalities.
One of the most expensive projects included in the plan is the coast railway line between Fuengirola and Estepona for which the Junta has reserved 1,900 million euros over the next five years. Closer to the other end of the scale is the 100 million euros for the expansion of Marina La Bajadilla and Puerto Banús, 40 million for the extension of the Costa del Sol hospital or 106 million to renovate the town’s sewer network and drinking water mains. “The idea is to make up for the lack of spending over the years, but I must insist that the money has always been there, it’s the land for the projects that was never forthcoming”, explains Diego Martín Reyes the Junta’s planning commissioner for the Costa del Sol and former president of the interim committee that took over the Town Hall after the council was dissolved in 2006.
There’s much more. The spending plan also includes new schools, health centres, social centres, tourist attractions and the implantation of new technology. “A lot of the smaller projects are for this year, but the larger ones will be much longer term”, added Martín Reyes, who stressed the Junta’s commitment to make the Costa del Sol a “priority” as it is a zone of “vital importance for the development of the province and of Andalucía in general”.
Martín Reyes’s new job is to coordinate the 3,950 million euro plan and to supervise personally some of the projects. In fact the former president of the interim committee now has the role of intermediary between the regional government and the local Town Halls on the Costa del Sol “to make sure that these projects do not get stuck in bureaucracy, so that they go ahead according to schedule”, he explained. So far he has come up against the reluctance of some local authorities to answer his calls, but he hopes that with time relations will improve, especially once March’s general and regional elections are over.
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