Corralejo street cleaning cancelled?

[fifi]

Translated by Google.

Adequate provision of basic municipal services such as road surfacing, street cleaning and collection containers, maintenance of infrastructure and several public buildings, street lighting, etc., is not guaranteed for the next few months in  La Oliva,  City Hall sources said on Sunday. In this sense, "we had to stop providing services to meet the payment of payroll.............

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[Ole Man River]

Thanks for that good news Fifi! We are not surprised by this latest move, as our Council continues to lurch from one disaster to another. 
Can the people of La Oliva district bring their Basura to Caleta or shall we dump it  at the Town Hall!!! 
Where this will end does not bear thinking about. 

[KWC]

Jesus things are bad over there.

But apart from saving on the fuel for the trucks, they won't really be saving that much, unless the poor council workers are being laid off on short time work etc?

[Ivemovedon]

thats fair enough if they can't afford to provide the most basic public services anymore. I suppose that must mean a rebate on our bin collection taxes? I will await the letter and accompanying cheque with anticipation.

[PHo]

Isn't this something to do with Origo Mare?  I read somewhere that the La Oliva council had to compensate the developer as they had given planning permission illegally, leaving a huge hole in their finances, and then recently when they tried to lay some workers off to balance the budget they were ordered by the court to reinstate them.

Perhaps someone with better Spanish than me can enlighten us?

[Magoo]

Went to Corry for the day on our last visit in Feb. One of the first sights we saw was a huge steaming dog egg right in the middle of the main shopping street. Not nice!

[peejay]

5 star luxury all the way. Maybe if you pick up the poo and put it on a roundabout we can all pretend it's a piece of modern art!

[Ivemovedon]

Apart from a few hotels its a 3 star island which caters for 3 star families and 3 star surfers in 3 star resorts. Its got great beaches and lots of Bits Krauts and Irish. Whats not to like ?. Why try and change it if it works ?.

As the old saying goes don't try polishing a turd.

[SheilaW]

Apart from a few hotels its a 3 star island which caters for 3 star families and 3 star surfers in 3 star resorts. Its got great beaches and lots of Bits Krauts and Irish. Whats not to like ?. Why try and change it if it works ?.

Well said! In fact, aren't the majority of people interested in 3-star? It's the "middle-of-the-road", comfortable, affordable type of accommodation. Sure, a resort needs to be able to cater for the minorities, too: the 5-star luxury brigade and the Butlin's style knees-up crowd, but not at the expense of the majority. Even those minorities may not be happy with the all-in, massive complexes that seem to be all the government want to favour now.

I've known both poverty and luxury in my (rather long) life, and I've stayed at a Pontins and in enormous 5-star business hotels with every service imaginable - and hated both. What I've loved has always been independence to do my own thing, whether that means cycle-camping, eating warmed-up supermarket tins and going for long walks when dirt-poor, or staying in a luxury villa with private pool and enough dosh to visit a different restaurant every night.

Independent travellers could have really great holidays here (unless they want total, unadulterated luxury) because there's a great range of accommodation and great restaurants, bars, etc to go with the fantastic sea, sun and countryside. But not the way things are going, with nobody being allowed to rent out accommodation, and loads of bars being shut down or forced to play quiet background music only. I'm active on a French tourism forum for Fuerteventura and the constant question is "Where can I stay in B&B or private self-catering? I hate the tourist complexes.".

But I do have some sympathy with the local council on this money issue. They aren't responsible for the current fiasco, at least, not entirely. I hope tourists and residents alike will adopt a supportive attitude. At the same time, I hope the council will stop wasting money hand over fist: stopping watering the grass on roundabouts might be a good place to start! Probably not the most important cutback they could make, but it's an expense that's so ridiculous it makes my blood boil.