Mijas has grown a lot in the last 40 years, mainly through residential areas, that is to say, transforming rustic land into urban land, but away from the population centres, contrary to the traditional growth of cities, which is circumferential. Traditionally, it was the developer of the residential area or the residents themselves who named the streets, resulting in many duplications of names between different residential areas, such as, for example, the streets Rosas and Geranios.

To organise this situation, and at the same time allow each home to have a unique address in the municipality, the councillor of the government team, Mario Bravo (PP), recalls that the town began to combine the name of the residential area with the name of the street, by way of surnames, and in this way, “Calle Olivos became Calle Olivos de Campomijas and Calle Olivos de Sierrezuela. This trick made it easier for the postal address on the envelopes to fit on one line, to be easily recognisable and to put an end to duplicity”.

“However, this is not enough, because there is another task to be done which, although it may seem easy at first, complicates the matter: numbering the houses, in ascending order, odd numbers on the left and even numbers on the right”,  explained Bravo, who added that the truth is that many residential areas have kept the original numbering of the plots, which was not useful for locating them correctly.

Bravo pointed out that a few years ago the Mijas Town Hall unified the number plates (square, blue, with its coat of arms) and has been placing them on the façades of the houses. This task is carried out by the area of Tax Management, in collaboration with the Department of Public Roads, which incorporates the correct data for each dwelling in both the cadastre and the census, which then serves as a basis for many services (parcel delivery, emergency vehicles, etc.).

“This measure has made it easier for Correos to deliver both regular mail and parcels to homes, which was previously impossible”, the councillor stresses.

Collaboration and postcodes

The Town Hall is asking for the cooperation of all neighbours to remove the old number and, at the same time, to use the new number as a unique address.  

Finally, Bravo pointed out that Mijas has three post codes: 29650, north of the motorway and east of the river Gomenaro; 29651, south of the motorway and east of the river Gomenaro; and 29649, all the way west of the river Gomenaro.

Long-term plan

The ordinance that gave rise to this street naming plan was approved 11 years ago, in 2014, with the idea of standardising the naming and labelling process, as well as clarifying the numbering of houses and buildings. 

The ordinance arose in response to problems detected in residential areas and the duplication of street names. The ordinance established that streets could not have misleading or offensive names, and prioritised names of distinguished local people. It also stipulated that street and square names should be short and clear, and that street numbering should be based on proximity to the Town Hall building.

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