Sunday, March 19, 2006
A Valencian land story. Gandia
The contractors, after many false dawns, carved the road through our garden, Wednesday, they demolished hedges and walls and have now left themselves a major problem, because our water access point, where once was within our garden is now in the middle of the new road, such as it is.
A palm tree which we have nurtured from small to mature is about to be removed, it sits exactly on the new boundary, so rather than move the boundary over by one foot, as I asked, they prefer to remove it.
The view from our balcony is incredible, we look out on a scene of complete devastation. We have no security, we are at the mercy of anybody who would care to help themselves. If we had to make an insurance claim they would laugh. We have absolutely no privacy, we have temporary chicken wire divisions, mounted on concrete blocks, animals run freely in and out of our garden.
So far we have paid 1700 euros with a final bill of somewhere around 17000 euros, maybe more.
The completion date is October this year, if it were not so serious it would be laughable, not a cat in hells chance! There are only two men working, plus a hired excavator.
An urbanisation of 57 houses in the middle of the campo, with adequate existing tarmac roads, provided by ourselves, but now we have to have a network of roads joining the roads, for whatever reason, completely escapes me.
We await the arrival of the pipes to bring us drinking water from a non existent collector and to have our sewage piped away to a non existent sewage collector and then to have all electric and telephone cables buried alongside the pipes, all of which we have to pay for, when we already have electricity, telephone and water drawn from a subterranean lake.
The contractors, after many false dawns, carved the road through our garden, Wednesday, they demolished hedges and walls and have now left themselves a major problem, because our water access point, where once was within our garden is now in the middle of the new road, such as it is.
A palm tree which we have nurtured from small to mature is about to be removed, it sits exactly on the new boundary, so rather than move the boundary over by one foot, as I asked, they prefer to remove it.
The view from our balcony is incredible, we look out on a scene of complete devastation. We have no security, we are at the mercy of anybody who would care to help themselves. If we had to make an insurance claim they would laugh. We have absolutely no privacy, we have temporary chicken wire divisions, mounted on concrete blocks, animals run freely in and out of our garden.
So far we have paid 1700 euros with a final bill of somewhere around 17000 euros, maybe more.
The completion date is October this year, if it were not so serious it would be laughable, not a cat in hells chance! There are only two men working, plus a hired excavator.
An urbanisation of 57 houses in the middle of the campo, with adequate existing tarmac roads, provided by ourselves, but now we have to have a network of roads joining the roads, for whatever reason, completely escapes me.
We await the arrival of the pipes to bring us drinking water from a non existent collector and to have our sewage piped away to a non existent sewage collector and then to have all electric and telephone cables buried alongside the pipes, all of which we have to pay for, when we already have electricity, telephone and water drawn from a subterranean lake.
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