The land in the photo here is by the Magic Roundabout in Alcudia. It's where circuses have been held, but otherwise it is land that seems to serve zero purpose. Green it may be, but it's not as if there is a pleasant little park. It was, some of you may remember, earmarked to provide part of a temporary complex for the insane idea to bid for the staging of a Spain-Germany Davis Cup tie some years ago. That was a town hall idea. Fortunately, the Spanish Tennis Federation appreciated that it was mad.
The state of Alcudia ... (latest edition)
Another example of the neglect of the main tourist centre
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I love Alcudia´s Old Town and the environs and live here permanently. I am not happy about the tree high voltage cables coming anywhere near La Victoria nor near where people live when they do not have to do so nor near the Posidonia. I am also not happy to see all the garbage/refuse outside the beautiful Medieval Wall - when it could so easily be cleaned up - and do not understand why it is not? Also do not understand why the dog poo bins are not emptied regularly? I have a dog and use them but cannot a lot of the time because of this. I recently filled in a survey for the Alcudia Town Hall and mentioned all of this and said I would be more than happy to walk around with someone from the Town Hall to show them where the garbage does not get picked up. No one has replied to me. I am also not happy about the two Swastikas in Alcudia. I have reported this to a few different authorities in Alcudia and Mallorca and neither of them have been removed. None of what I have mentioned are nice for locals who live here nor tourists who visit. Katherine
Yes, the land is a mess. Yes, they’re building carbuncles on the beach and yes, the bins and cockroach infestation in the old town is horrific. But this all pales into insignificance, when you consider the terrifying THREE carcinogenic electricity cables that the government and RED electric are planning to run across Alcúdia, scaring the landscape and poisoning the population. Apparently these mega cables are too dangerous for the bay of Alcúdia (they’ll likely kill the posidonia), so ruthless RED planning to run no less than three poison cables through the bay of pollensa (no protection for this posidonia), scaring and poisoning the natural lanes and countryside of Alcúdia. Harmful to posidonia? But hey ho - who cares about people and children. Apparently, in Alcúdia, seaweed is more important than children. Figure that one out. But of course there was a consultation meeting, on October 7. When RED turned up and said - there would be ‘NO’ consultation on the cable entry points. So…. Urrrr …. Let me get this right … ‘no consultation’. Why hold a meeting??? Alcúdia is doomed :)
The refuse system is in a shocking state. The underground bins are broken so we have large dumpsters parked next to them instead. A complete mess and eyesore, unhygienic, smelly and a magnet for rats and cockroaches (against which there have been no spraying or control measures this year resulting in the old town being inundated by them this summer. Lovely. 100 million in the bank and,,,,nothing much, except for a lot of cockroaches.
The PP are totally useless, even worse than the PSOE