Over two thousand four hundred residents of the La Siesta and El Chaparral areas of Torrevieja have signed a petition which has been handed in to the council, which calls on the mayor, José Manuel Dolon, to re-start a major local park development project which was suspended in the summer by the new administration. 48 people from the Mediterraneo employment workshop had been involved with the 40 thousand square metre area being scheduled for completion by the end of the year, with skateboard facilities, and water fountains as part of the reinvigoration of a former piece of wasteland. Before May’s local elections, the previous Partido Popular-run council claimed that the project was all running to schedule and would be finished before the end of the year. The new coalition authority say invoices for materials amounting to 140 thousand euros were not produced and the project has run out of cash.
