Orihuela Costa - no public services, no amenities and a dump

[sugar]

oc

KC1
Other than number 5 on your list you could be describing many areas of the UK or anywhere else for that matter. If you lived in idyllic conditions in the UK you were one of the lucky ones but most people live in or near towns and cities (for work ) and have to put up with similar and sometimes worse problems than here.
I do not doubt you have problems where you are but just trying to put it in perspective, there are many thousands that are very glad they made the move and have no intention of returning.

[KC1]

1. Syringes near children's playing areas
2. Children's playing areas not maintained
3. Green waste uncollected for a month
4. Pavements overgrown
5. Sewerage flowing from man hole covers
6. Broken bins
7. Rats seen leaving bins
8. So called 'green' areas which are like shit pits

Yes, you bet your life I'm getting hot under the collar and I intend to add more and more photographic evidence to my collection.

Some people from awful areas may regard this as a piece of heaven but I have seen better. If only I could afford to return to it.


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[sugar]

oc

We have garden waste put next to the bins, sometimes a little sometimes a lot but it's never there more than a couple of days, the remainder of the mess is caused by people who can't be bothered to dispose of their rubbish properly.
Sewage is a different matter and is of course serious but again it's not something we've ever had a problem with, lucky I guess.
I know a family who are always complaining about a neighbors dog to the extent that they've become paranoid about it and are forever bemoaning their lot for living where they do, speak to others around them (various nationalities) and the dog isn't a problem?
Sewage aside I just wonder if perhaps you are also letting it get to you and getting a bit hot under the collar over it.
No offence intended.

[Murray]

Just looked at photos there now, get a life, you find things like this all round the world.

[grange]

Ah well its much better and healthier to enjoy our life on the Costa, than worrying about it. I am not in denial but giving my true version of the area where we live.

[KC1]

Don't let my growing album of photographs convince you Grange. I have lived here since 1999 so please stop quoting your six year anniversary as though it is of some significance.

This area is a tip and the photographs prove it. I shall be adding more in the coming weeks. Enjoy and keep living in denial if you want.

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[Ellsam]

Well said Ellsam ! I was a member of the Scottish Green Party and although I determined never to play an active part in politics again, I concur with everything you have said. I do not take part in any organised campaigns but along with others, pick up and clean up wherever and whenever I can.

I hope you can access my photograph album and that you will watch it grow.

Please feel free to help yourself to any of the photographs within it to use as you wish which are taken by me but over which I claim no copyright.

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KC1 - Talk to us, either at the next surgery or email me at any of the addresses on the Blogs.

Elliot Sampford

[grange]

Here we go again, no I am not an estate agent just a normal human being living here after moving from the UK and doing some homework over 6 years ago.

We and many of our neighbours do not know the Orihuela Costa some of the moaners live in. We have never had any problems and find life here very enjoyable. We are not political animals who seem to thrive on picking out issues to satisfy there own grumbles and look for publicity. That goes on everywhere.
If you live here and get involved you will know where all the facilities are, that I have mention in a previous post, are located.

Many improvements are taking place and just look at the latest info released by the Town Hall



Don´t look at the garbage posted on You Tube etc.

The Clean up Campaign is brilliant and clearly is going to remove some of the eyesores left by unscrupulous developers and agents.

'Clean up the Costa'

So lets promote the Costa and not rubbish it there are far worse places in the world you can live.

[KC1]

Well said Ellsam ! I was a member of the Scottish Green Party and although I determined never to play an active part in politics again, I concur with everything you have said. I do not take part in any organised campaigns but along with others, pick up and clean up wherever and whenever I can.

I hope you can access my photograph album and that you will watch it grow.

Please feel free to help yourself to any of the photographs within it to use as you wish which are taken by me but over which I claim no copyright.

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[Ellsam]

We are another family who have lived here for over 6 years in Orihuela Costa and cannot find any fault. Our bins are emptied every day, streets are cleaned regularly, green bins are everywhere. Local rates are very cheap. There are all the facilities you want, blue flag beaches right from Punta Prima to Mil Palmeras all very clean and beautiful blue sea. Many play and sports areas, Sports Centre being built. A vast array of well run commercial centres, a Social. centre for the over 60´s and very efficient police force and very little crime

If the streets are cleaned regularly why is there a need for the Clean up the Costa campaign. In one hour on Thursday 16th October 70 volunteers picked up enough litter to fill 140 bags of litter from Calle Niagara (see the topic on this forum "Clean up the Costa" or read the local papers this coming week).

The play and sports areas are not maintained by the Council. The areas are either covered by litter or dog excrement or both, if there are any litter bins they are either broken or unemptied or both. Who wants their children to play there?

What about La Zenia beach that doesn't have a Blue Flag, but it does have sewage on occassions?

Why is there only a Civic Centre for the over 60s. What about the rest of the Residents of the area? A public facility should be for all ages!

Perhaps you live in a different Orihuela Costa to most of us!

Elliot Sampford

[KC1]

This may or may not work. I am no computer whiz kid. I have set up an on line photograph album and intend to place all my photographs on it showing the truth about Orihuela Costa.

It should be here:

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This set of pictures show a pile of rotting green waste that has been in situ for one month tomorrow, a broken rubbish bin which allows access to rats and which has been reported to the town hall using the approved paperwork and just one untended kerb. These are the start of my pictures and I intend to add many more !

[Ellsam]

Read the Blogs

I know this forum is concerned with Torrevieja but I am unlucky enough to live in Orihuela Costa.

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I hope that some straying politician or newspaper reporter reads this.

This post will probably be deleted by the Moderators but here goes.....

May I suggest that you read the following two Blogs;

Clean up the Costa.

If you want to see & help us all get a cleaner Orihuela Costa then join in with the campaign.

Los Verdes in Orihuela Costa


If you have specific problems then take the opportunity to talk to us and our Councillor for the coast; see the reference to the next surgery on the Blog.

Talk to us, there are contact details on the Blogs.

Elliot Sampford,
English Spokesman - Orihuela Costa Working Group,
Los Verdes de Orihuela

[KC1]

We are another family who have lived here for over 6 years in Orihuela Costa and cannot find any fault. Our bins are emptied every day, streets are cleaned regularly, green bins are everywhere. Local rates are very cheap. There are all the facilities you want, blue flag beaches right from Punta Prima to Mil Palmeras all very clean and beautiful blue sea. Many play and sports areas, Sports Centre being built. A vast array of well run commercial centres, a Social. centre for the over 60´s and very efficient police force and very little crime

Dear Estate Agent,

Our streets are never cleaned and lack waste facilities. I have the photographs to prove it.

Not interested in beaches. The ones around the British Isles put these here in the shade and we all know they scrape the sand over the sewerage here to cover it up and that back handing attained them their blue flags.

I don't want to spend all day in shopping centres which are full of crap. I don't have the money to fritter away in any case.

Please:

1. List the sports and play areas

2. Where is the Sports centre ?

3. Where is the social centre for the over 60's ?

4. What is a police force ? never see them and people have been turned away when reporting crime at the Civial Guard even when attending with an interpreter because the GC say they are 'too busy'. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether the crime is reported or not - nothing ever happens

5. Our area has had dozens of house break ins in the past month, fencing ripped down to make hooks to attach to poles for 'fishing' from open windows etc.

Get real, OC is a shit hole of the first order, unless of course you come here from an inner city and know no different.

I am thinking about taking up an old hobby - photography - and to start evidencing things on a public website. Don't have much knowledge of the internet though. Anyone know of an easy to upload photographs site ?
I think the time has come to show people OC for what it is.

Is it possible to place photographs on this forum and if so, perhaps someone could kindly explain how to do it.

[Scorpio]

We are another family who have lived here for over 6 years in Orihuela Costa and cannot find any fault. Our bins are emptied every day, streets are cleaned regularly, green bins are everywhere. Local rates are very cheap. There are all the facilities you want, blue flag beaches right from Punta Prima to Mil Palmeras all very clean and beautiful blue sea. Many play and sports areas, Sports Centre being built. A vast array of well run commercial centres, a Social. centre for the over 60´s and very efficient police force and very little crime

Are you an estate agent?

[grange]

OC

We are another family who have lived here for over 6 years in Orihuela Costa and cannot find any fault. Our bins are emptied every day, streets are cleaned regularly, green bins are everywhere. Local rates are very cheap. There are all the facilities you want, blue flag beaches right from Punta Prima to Mil Palmeras all very clean and beautiful blue sea. Many play and sports areas, Sports Centre being built. A vast array of well run commercial centres, a Social. centre for the over 60´s and very efficient police force and very little crime