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Date Published: 26/05/2022
ARCHIVED - Villas Caravaning agrees to invest in safety to avoid closure
Tenants and owners at the La Manga campsite hope to survive by paying more to improve fire prevention services
Last week, Villas Caravaning in La Manga was threatened with imminent closure due to its chronic inability to improve safety measures and protect against fire hazards.
The campsite, which is home to around 2,000 owners living in motorhomes on the plot of land near Playa Honda-Playa Paraíso, was given ten days to present an acceptable health and safety risk prevention plan or face being shut down.
Last night, Wednesday May 25, the French company that owns Villas Caravaning, Capfun, held a meeting at the Las Gaviotas Hotel in La Manga to discuss the proposal and figure out how to move forward.
At the meeting, the representatives of the owners and tenants of Villas Caravaning agreed with the management company to approve a health and safety plan that is expected to involve such measures as installing more fire hydrants on the campsite and modernising the electrical installations, which the City Council of Cartagena has pointed out are a fire hazard.
The requirement comes from the City Council after a series of fires at the campsite, and at the same time as firefighters in La Manga have warned that they are struggling due to budget cuts and may not have enough staff or equipment to face the tough summer months, when wildfires are more common in Spain.
To finance these improvements, the owners’ association agreed to an increase in the fees they pay – from around 1,040 euros a year up to 1,200 – to cover the cost of adapting the facilities as demanded by Cartagena City Hall.
These fees are paid quarterly by the residents and owners of plots of land on the campsite, and so it is expected that Capfun will be able to raise 80,000 euros to put towards new safety measures within the next three months.
It is hoped that with this investment and show of willingness to update and improve the facilities on site, the campsite will not be closed down and the people living there will not face being made homeless.
However, the powers that be in Cartagena will have the final say on whether the proposed project, and the final changes implemented in it, meet the health and safety standards they require.
Image: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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