Jan's Update

VL: BENISSA PROJECT ON AGAIN? It would appear that the recently constituted Benissa Council for Urbanizing and the Environment has lasted precisely two months, after the Partido Popular representatives at last Thursday's meeting stated that they were considering re-presenting the plan for the Ronda Norte area of theMunicipality. This plan, promoted by a company run by the brother of Juan Cotino, the Conseller for Agriculture, envisages the construction of some 2,000 homes on half a million square metres, with the main road costing some nine million Euros that is to be divided between all the 25 property owners. Amongst these are Joan Josep Cardona, the Town Historian and local businessman Joaquin Nadal. Following the voting on the project, representatives of the El Runar and Avall ecological collectives stated that they were not going to participate in any more meetings of the Council. Aspokesman for the CIBE party also reflected this view, whilst the Socialists echoed this, with their spokesman Vicent Cabrera stating that he had never seen 'such a shameful procedure in a council meeting in my entire life'.
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