The improvement of all the leisure areas of the municipality, especially those aimed at children, has been one of the tasks that has occupied the works department of Albox Town Hall in recent weeks.
After meeting with neighbours, businesses and associations of La Loma to make them part of the transformation that is taking place in the Plaza San Francisco, the works began a fortnight ago. The Town Hall is going to carry out a complete remodelling of the leisure area, which will be used as a children’s area, but will be much more accessible. Architectural barriers have been removed, new furniture and new lighting will be installed. The work is being carried out with the Plan de Fomento de Empleo Agrario and will be completed before Easter.
In the Parque del Beato, after the fire in the kiosk last October, the Town Hall has cleaned the entire affected area and has changed the platform, removed the floor and replaced all the flooring. The area is now accessible, safe and free of architectural barriers, with an accessible ramp for disabled people. Non-slip flooring has been laid and a general cleaning of the whole area, including the artificial lake, has been carried out.
The next step will be to remove spikes and cement edges throughout the playground to increase children’s safety and to replace the calisthenics area with a special sandpit for the little ones.
The Parque Fofó is another of the areas that has already been improved, changing the rubber which was very deteriorated. One of the walls, which was broken, has been reinforced, the different equipment has been repaired and, finally, the park has been given a general cleaning.
«The children’s playgrounds needed urgent action, especially maintenance and cleaning. The neighbours were asking us to remove spikes and cement edges, to fix equipment that represented a danger to children and, in short, to maintain the playgrounds in general. This is what we are going to do and we are going to continue improving and modernising many of these spaces for our children» explains the Mayoress of Albox, María del Mar Alfonso, who has toured the works with the councillors responsible for Works and Parks, Esteban Carrión and Lucía Gómez, respectively.