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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
Friday, 2 November 2018, 10:11
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Delays in the resurfacing and landscaping improvement on Estepona's Avenida Andalucía, a key local thoroughfare, are causing misery for locals and forcing shops to close and others to lose money, locals say.
The plan for the avenue that acts as an inner ring road around the old town was divided into two phases. The project started in May with the first part expected to have been finished in three months and the second part in six months.
However, almost five months on, there is still no sign of the works being close to finished, a problem that was compounded recently with the heavy rains and floods in the town.
Two franchised shops have closed and the Los Arcos bar has stopped trading as well, as the owner didn't want to renew the lease.
Pilar González is a partner in the Fusion hairdressers and is worried that, after investing her savings a year ago in the business, she is going to have to close. She admits that the business is kept going by its regular clients, " but in the summer we were hoping to make a comeback but it all went wrong because the work should have been finished on 20 August and it's still just the same now". She added that the owner of the shop unit had reduced her rent.
Bar owners estimate a fall in sales of between 50 and 75 per cent and complain that they see few people working on the site and that the contractor needs more supervision.
The council says that both phases are being carried out simultaneously now and all should be ready "by Christmas".
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