A few months with many improvements and promises kept
Improvements in our streets and gardens
We have managed to improve the collaboration with the Mijas Town Hall for the cleaning of streets and gardens.
We have managed to maintain the support from Mijas Town Hall for the cleaning of Miraflores, which consists of sweeping with both machinery and personnel, as well as the watering of the streets.
The town hall is also supporting us with personnel for the cleaning of slopes. These personnel come from the Renta Básica social and labour insertion programme. This programme creates job opportunities for people who are at risk of social exclusion and who have been unemployed for years and cannot easily access the labour market.
Meridional together with the president are coordinating and supporting the working group that has been set up between the town hall and the Miraflores gardening and cleaning service to optimise these services.
Asphalting of streets
Another great news is that asphalting work has started on Hortensia, Dalia, Verbena and Rosa streets. Meridional has been requesting this work constantly since it took over the administration of Miraflores in February 2020. Even during the pandemic, they were working with the council’s technicians to check the streets.
Finally, thanks to these efforts of the administrator and the work of the technicians and officials of the infrastructure area of Mijas town hall, we can celebrate the start of these long awaited works in Miraflores.
Control of wild animals
We are also collaborating with the environmental department of the town council to control and capture wild boars that have been seen on some occasions in the streets and gardens of Miraflores.
At the same time, complementary measures are being studied to prevent wild boar from leaving their natural environment.
On the other hand, the technicians of the environmental department of the town council have sent us some recommendations and advice:
● Reinforce the fences so that they are not breached from underneath.
- Do not leave rubbish outside the containers.
- Do not feed pets in the streets.
River clean-up
In the river area several fallen trees have been pruned and removed, which were creating quite a danger in the area. Many dry plants have also been uprooted to avoid fire hazards and to prevent insects and rodents from entering the area.
These dry plants have been replaced by fescue, creeping rosemary, penisetum, fornio and stipa, which are plants that can stand all year round with moderate watering and look great all year round.
Work on Avenida Del Sol.
Thanks to the impulse of our president Urszulla Karlsson, an agreement could be reached with Riviera to remodel the median that separates the two urbanisations. The work has already started and we expect it to be completed by the end of January.
They have started with irrigation works, repairs to the magnolia tree and the placing of white decorative stones marking the borders of the flower beds. In this way we will have a more beautiful and cared for area all year round.
Paseo Joseph Defresne
At the urging of President Urszula Karlsson and Meridional, it was unanimously approved that the path along the river from the tennis court to the fountain through the Club be named after Joseph Defresne.
With this detail we would like to pay tribute to Joseph after his recent death; a loss that all of us who knew him and worked with him in Miraflores feel very close to him.
For almost 30 years he was a president who worked to improve the Great Community every day; and he did so with a constructive and dialoguing character, earning the respect and support of the whole community year after year.
All the presidents of the communities have praised his career and the work he has done for Miraflores during these 3 decades and naming this promenade after him is our way of recognising his dedication to this community.