The neighbours are revolting in Costa Del Silencio.
Current roadworks and refurbishment of the CDS area has caused much upheaval in the last 18 months. Where once pushing a toddler’s pram along the path was risking death by car or getting hobbled by the cobbles now one could easily drive a JCB up the centre of the pedestrian walkways.
Walkers, cyclists, roller skaters, pram pushers … all can now skip along the pedestrian walkways arm in arm if they feel like it because the paths have gone from non-existent, ankle breaking road verges to great swathes of feet-friendly concrete. This is great news of course for those who didn’t enjoy taking their life in their hands when nipping to Hermusa for a pint of milk but in order to achieve this rambler’s nirvana there has been a bit of land grabbing going on resulting in great bites of garden being snatched off the local residential complexes.
Oddly, although in certain areas the contractors appear to have finished, tidied up and sodded off all is not as it seems. A peek over the wall at the tennis courts at the corner of Poliferno and Calle Diana shows that despite work being apparently finished foundations have been laid for a new wall bout seven feet in from the current one.
Something similar must be going on at the Chayofita end of Costa Del Silencio because the residents of block 10 are up in arms about a new wall that is scheduled to bisect their garden.They have made formal complaints to the appropriate governement departments (which shows the usual triumph of hope over experience) and no doubt expecting their petition to fall on deaf ears they have also been in touch with the newspapers. The Diario de Avisos reports that the nighbours will not stand to have their gardens shredded and are willing to stand in front of the spades.
Ooooh. While it all sounds a bit ‘pitchforks at twenty paces’ tempers are running high. Watch this space.
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