Junta to invest €256,491 to renovate El Calvario

El Calvario this morning

JIMENA (Agencies) EPSA, the Junta's public housing company, is to invest €256,491.69 to renovate 60 homes in the El Calvario section of the village. The PSOE group on the Council made the announcement yesterday, adding that the work is up for tender. The group, now in opposition, pointed out that the request for funding was made in 2008, when it was in power. Work will consist of repairs to the fronts of several houses, improvements to some of the streetlets that access the area, which will mean building new stairs and ramps, while also eliminating several gardens. Work is estimated to begin in 2012.

Junta leaves Jimena and Tarifa macro projects out of POT

JIMENA/TARIFA (Agencies) In its latest revision of the Plan General de Ordenación del Territorio (POT) for the Campo de Gibraltar, the Junta de Andalucía has left out some of the projects that had previously been included. Principally impacted are Jimena and Tarifa, the former with a now un-backed golf resort of some €900million, and Tarifa with a similar golf project. The decision comes as the result of the financial crisis and affects major infrastructure investments of this kind. The Jimena Golf Resort tourist complex could go ahead via other means, according to Mayor Pascual Collado, as it is qualified as 'of regional tourism interest'. In any case the 700 homes in the project have not been scrapped by the Junta. Also, Collado points out that the POT establishes a series of other infrastructures, including necessary public works such as sewage and road improvements.>