The Mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), announced on Tuesday 22nd that the Town Hall will soon put out to tender the conservation and maintenance service for the Sierra de Mijas. The councillor made this announcement after a meeting with residents of the SUP C-24 sector, in the area of the Costa del Sol Racecourse, which was also attended by councillors Daniel Gómez (PP) and Juan José Torres Trella (PP), and in which they expressed their concern about the future of the plots of land in part of the Chaparral forest. "I am with them, we have to preserve as much as possible all the trees that we have in our municipality and we have shown this concern through the contract for the conservation and maintenance of our mountains, which will soon go out to tender", said the mayoress, adding that "we will try to ensure that this area is as little affected as possible by the removal of trees and that urban development can be considered without affecting the vegetation".

At the meeting, held on the 17th of October, the residents expressed their concern to Mata about the feasibility of the modification of the SUP C-24 reparcelling project, approved in plenary in July 2021. According to them, the modification contemplates "the construction of four-storey buildings for a total of 654 homes, with the disappearance of a large amount of forest mass", said the president of the association Bosque El Chaparral de Mijas, Sergio Espinosa, in a statement sent to this media. At the meeting, Espinosa presented the mayoress with a written document describing the forest in technical terms, the urban development problem which, they claim, threatens it and the possible solutions they propose to the Town Hall. "These are issues that were raised at the meeting, which we took note of and which we are already working on to resolve", said the mayoress.

 

At the meeting, according to the president of the association, issues such as the request for more cleaning and clearing of the streets, the improvement of the bus service, more parking in the area, as well as improvements to the playground were also raised. In addition, the residents asked for a change of direction on the road under construction linking La Cala with the Racecourse because, they argued, "there are three alternatives towards La Cala, but for the way back, the only alternative is to go along the motorway to the lighthouse and cross by dirt tracks or go to the castle area to take the road to the cemetery".

Ana Mata confirmed that, indeed, "there is a road that connects with La Cala, where we had the possibility in summer to have two directions, but due to development issues in the area, it has been determined a single direction" and, in this sense, she assured that "from the Town Hall we are taking note trying to solve these day to day problems". "Mijas has a problem of accessibility; we have little public transport service and there are areas that have been developed in which there is a lack of roads that allow access to the A-7", she said, although she clarified that “in many cases these are infrastructures that we cannot build overnight because they are areas that are currently being developed and the development comes with this type of problem”. The mayoress, however, was optimistic in this regard and was confident that "over time these problems will dissipate because there are solutions and because the areas will be developed".

Finally, the mayoress said that this "we are going to work like that, meeting with all those neighbourhood associations that are in areas yet to be developed and that will have to suffer at the beginning of this development" and stressed that “we are working so that as soon as possible there is an established normality and they can enjoy the area where they live”.

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