The Mijas Town Hall presented last Thursday the 3rd the keys and objectives of the Local Plan for Sports Facilities and Equipment, a document that was made public at the Las Lagunas Theatre by the Sports councillor, Andrés Ruiz (Cs), and presented to the local sports clubs. As explained by the councillor, it is a novel plan that complies with regional regulations and puts on the table an x-ray of how the municipality is doing, what its assets are and at the same time, defines the routes through which improvements should be implemented with public investment in facilities in a rational way.

It is a document that did not exist and which facilitates the work within sports management from the point of view of improvements and future investments, so that decisions are agreed with local sports actors, in fact it is an open plan that admits allegations during its period in public display.

Therefore, the Local Council wanted to hear the suggestions and contributions of the protagonists and users of the local sport facilities.
“We have drafted a historical and relevant document in Mijas, which is the Local Plan for Sports Facilities and Equipment, an X-ray of the shape in which our facilities currently are, showing their needs. We wanted to involve all the clubs in Mijas, so we summoned them here and they have responded very well with their presence”, said Ruiz. “The first step we wanted to take before approving it in plenary session and passing it on to administrative process was to present it to the local sports clubs and give them the opportunity to contribute their ideas, suggestions and allegations. We wanted them to be the first to know, as they are an important source of information and because it will help us in the future to access subsidies for improvements to facilities or special public tenders both at the regional and state level”, he added.

Approval deadlines

The document will be presented during the plenary session in June, afterwhich there will be a 30-day public exposure period in order for any allegations to be presented. Later it will be submitted to the vote for provisional approval, to then be transferred to the different administrations and, finally, it will have to receive the definite approval in a plenary session. This plan is the result of detailed work over more than two years by the sports management consultancy Wayedra, a leading company in this sector and based on values ​​such as innovation and quality. The company had to wait for the approval of the new regional regulations to adapt to it and detail the public sports facilities, those that provide service in educational centres and in tourist and residential areas. The plan takes stock of all this and proposes where future investments should go, taking into account, among others, parameters such as population growth, areas of impact and future needs.

For Ruiz it is “a relevant, historical document, an x-ray of how the municipality is doing in this regard, what needs it has and where we should go from here when it comes to prioritizing future investments”. “It is a living document, which we will renew every three years and it  will facilitate the work and lay the foundations of a municipality that lives sport intensely and wants citizens to have the best facilities and as many as possible of them, we are convinced that betting on sports is a safe, healthy and magnificent option for these times”, he added.

Sports community

For her part, the president of the Mijas Handball Club, Maribel Cuevas, who participated in the round of interventions, said: “I found it very interesting to get to know where growth is going to be directed as regards sports facilities in Mijas. We have reported the need, in Las Lagunas, for another covered pavilion to be created, not only for my sport, handball, but for the rest of the modalities, since there is a very large population”.

It is “interesting to know how the plan has been drafted, how the processes will be carried out and, above all, that the participation of sports clubs and sports persons, including the needs we have as a sports club and as citizens, is taken into account”, added the president of Candor CF, Miguel Galisteo.

The Managing Director of Wayedra, Orlando Rodríguez, stressed “the variety and quantity of sports facilities that there are in Mijas, with its dispersion due to the characteristics of the municipality” and congratulated “the Local Government for being one of the first to draft this plan, which is mandatory according to the current regulations”.

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