The town hall is under a different political regime to the one that envisaged Rafa Nadal belting a ball into someone's garden. The Partido Popular, favoured by a general swing towards the right in Mallorca but also by the unforgivable episode of the rubbish strike in high summer, are now in power. In advance of last year's election, the PP made a thing of posting photographic 'denuncias' on social media. These were typically examples of poor maintenance, e.g. weeds proliferating where weeds shouldn't.
The thing is that it is very easy to criticise when in opposition and then forget that you had made those criticisms. Not too long ago I drew attention to the state of the abandoned all-weather and tennis courts on the Carretera Arta (replete with the squat). Some effort has since been made. But not much. By Magic, meanwhile, no effort at all has been made, a further indictment - and not just of this current administration - of how little attention is paid to the municipality beyond the old town and the port area. (Oh, but by the way, has anyone else noticed that those cobble-style bricks on C. Teodor Canet by the main car park are now coming loose? That was a project of the previous administration.)
One accepts that numerous demands are placed on any town hall, but the consistency with which the main tourist centre of Magic to Bellevue is overlooked is plain embarrassing. Everyone knows that the town hall has a mountain of cash, but this mountain would be barely touched by a brigade of workers sent in to tidy up a plot of land.
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I love Alcudia´s Old Town and the environs and live here permanently. I am not happy about the tree high voltage cables coming anywhere near La Victoria nor near where people live when they do not have to do so nor near the Posidonia. I am also not happy to see all the garbage/refuse outside the beautiful Medieval Wall - when it could so easily be cleaned up - and do not understand why it is not? Also do not understand why the dog poo bins are not emptied regularly? I have a dog and use them but cannot a lot of the time because of this. I recently filled in a survey for the Alcudia Town Hall and mentioned all of this and said I would be more than happy to walk around with someone from the Town Hall to show them where the garbage does not get picked up. No one has replied to me. I am also not happy about the two Swastikas in Alcudia. I have reported this to a few different authorities in Alcudia and Mallorca and neither of them have been removed. None of what I have mentioned are nice for locals who live here nor tourists who visit. Katherine
Yes, the land is a mess. Yes, they’re building carbuncles on the beach and yes, the bins and cockroach infestation in the old town is horrific. But this all pales into insignificance, when you consider the terrifying THREE carcinogenic electricity cables that the government and RED electric are planning to run across Alcúdia, scaring the landscape and poisoning the population. Apparently these mega cables are too dangerous for the bay of Alcúdia (they’ll likely kill the posidonia), so ruthless RED planning to run no less than three poison cables through the bay of pollensa (no protection for this posidonia), scaring and poisoning the natural lanes and countryside of Alcúdia. Harmful to posidonia? But hey ho - who cares about people and children. Apparently, in Alcúdia, seaweed is more important than children. Figure that one out. But of course there was a consultation meeting, on October 7. When RED turned up and said - there would be ‘NO’ consultation on the cable entry points. So…. Urrrr …. Let me get this right … ‘no consultation’. Why hold a meeting??? Alcúdia is doomed :)
The refuse system is in a shocking state. The underground bins are broken so we have large dumpsters parked next to them instead. A complete mess and eyesore, unhygienic, smelly and a magnet for rats and cockroaches (against which there have been no spraying or control measures this year resulting in the old town being inundated by them this summer. Lovely. 100 million in the bank and,,,,nothing much, except for a lot of cockroaches.
The PP are totally useless, even worse than the PSOE