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The Foreign Residents department of Mijas council has got behind a new initiative to help people get home more safely. The scheme, which was the idea of Taxi Mijas, the taxi service in the municipality, is based on the driver promising to wait unt
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Debbie Bartlett
...specific application, the compressive strength and construction properties required, and can vary. It should be stressed that the idea behind this scheme is to recycle plastic bottles and re-use the material, without causing unnecessary pressure on the
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FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
...cent of the infractions. Another 21.5 per cent were renovation work and changes of use (such as enclosing terraces with windows, or restoring an old house). The remaining 5.9 per cent of properties had swimming pools that did not figure on the ... authorities' database. Place to place By municipality, Malaga city stands out with 13,050 properties being regularised, of which half were extensions or rehabilitation. Nevertheless, in relative terms, it is striking that the inspectors detected
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...having their houses demolished, not being able to connect to mains water and electricity supplies, being unable to get mortgages for their properties or being able to sell them easily. In his view, it is also impeding the development and growth of towns ... properties that aren't individual properties but established housing developments," she added. Carazo pointed out the need for town hall support to issue local, sectorial planning guidelines for these housing estates, as many smaller councils don't yet
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Andrew Forbes
Beach near Punta Cana has recently undergone a make-over, restoring its status as one of the flagship properties for Bahia Principe. New for 2019 are swim-up pool suites, and the new Escape Experiences from Bahia Principe -signature gastronomy and
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Ivan Gelibter
Urbanisation work has now started to prepare for a development with 700 properties to be built in La Cala de Mijas by the firm Quabit. The mayor of Mijas, Juan Carlos Maldonado, and the Planning councillor, Andrés Ruiz, announced the start of the ... the project, which will start, alongside the urbanisation works, with the construction of a first phase of 240 properties. While the majority of the 700 properties in Las Lomas del Flamenco are aimed at foreign residential tourists, part of the area ... is reserved for young people. A sum of 12 million euros is being spent on 79 properties in El Lagar de Quabit, reserved for first-time buyers. A discount of five per cent will be applied to purchases of the two and three-bedroom properties in this
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Police have arrested five people in connection with a network of motorcycle riders who distributed cocaine on demand. As part of recent searches of properties in the Marbella area, 17 kilos of cocaine were found. More than 1.2 million euros of
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Casares council has started the process of the expropiation of properties in the historic centre which have been abandoned and whose state of disrepair is affecting adjoining properties. Around 60 properties are estimated to be in this state and
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Ivan Gelibter
Rural areas of Mijas (which account for almost a quarter of the population after Mijas Pueblo, Las Lagunas and La Cala) should begin to receive more services in the next few years. Town Planning councillor Andrés Ruiz met recently with representati
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Just one property in Spain has made it into the top 10 of TripAdvisor's Traveller's Choice Awards 2018. Located in the Bello Horizonte region of Marbella, near the Carlos Cabezas sports centre, 'VillaCasa Marbella' boasts eight bedrooms and six bat