In few places can one feel safer than at home. However, when getting to him becomes a continual ordeal, any sense of security disappears. That is what 70 families in an urbanization in Dénia suffer for years without knowing the supposed comfort of their homes, since accessing them is an unpleasant daily adventure, dodging debris, sinkholes, garbage, weeds, rodent and mosquito infestations.
This is the Brisas de Dénia I urbanization, located at the beginning of the road to Marines (at the height of the Tennis Club). It is not a small urbanization, but it has 70 apartments, many of them occupied throughout the year. The urbanization is idyllic, the area is completely urban, with numerous roads and services. The problem is that in order to access their car park through the main entrance (avoiding a long walk), the residents have to enter what has long been their nightmare: Calle Donzella.
When coming home becomes a nightmare
Carrer Donzella is a small road between housing estates, whose entrance leads directly to Les Marines road. But it has little to do with the good infrastructure that surrounds it. It is a completely abandoned public road, poorly paved (with sections directly unpaved), full of dangerous sinkholes that endanger the vehicles that circulate on it every day and that cause large accumulations of water when it rains.
The vegetation, moreover, is taking over the street, growing weeds without any control, turning the area into an ideal powder keg for a spark to cause a fire that can now be avoided. However, while the fire does not arrive, it serves as a refuge for a plague of rats that inhabit the area.
And, as if that were not enough, next to the entrance there is a completely abandoned building (that of the disappeared Yate restaurant), whose outer wall (the one facing Donzella street) is falling down and filling the road with rubble. And no one removes them.
Neighbors despair at the lack of response from the City Council
The residents of Brisas de Dénia I, who depend on that street to access their homes from Les Marines, are tired of going to the Town Hall and not getting an answer. As they tell Dénia.com, they have been asking the town hall since 2007 (year of construction of the farm) to fix all the damage to be able to enter their homes in peace. However, they have not achieved any results. «On one occasion he even replied that it was not a priority. However, complying with the payment of our municipal taxes seems to be a priority, otherwise they will quickly pressure you, "says the president of the community of neighbors.
Regarding the neighboring abandoned farm that is collapsing little by little on that road, "the only thing the City Council knows how to say is that they cannot locate the owner," he continues.
Since its construction, every year the neighbors have gone to the Town Hall to find solutions. So far they haven't found any. In fact, the last request is dated March of this year, but everything remains the same on the street, so the neighbors continue to put themselves at risk just for wanting to return home. Of course, they do not give up and are already preparing a complaint with the Síndic de greuges.
You are right. I wanted to emphasize public transport, it is a shame, in the marinas practically, especially in winter, we are without transport and it is something that should be solved
If you don't have a car you can't live, it's something never seen before. Thank you
Denia is an urban disaster and this is a consequence of the brickwork and the lack of planning. I wish you could go back to 1970 and do things right from the start. But we already have the whole set up. I'm so sorry for the neighbors, they don't deserve this. That whole area is messed up
What the residents of that urbanization do not say is that they have 2 entrance accesses to the parking lot of their urbanization, the entrance on the opposite side is perfectly paved, has lampposts and sidewalks, but of course they have to travel 100m with the car to get out through the good side.
They sell it as if it were just the entrance and it is not, they have the main entrance on the other side of the street in perfect urbanization conditions
When an urbanization is built, it has to have its access infrastructure. In addition to other requirements to obtain the certificate of occupancy.
Why do they call a road a street?
Denia has always been wonderful and from 73 until now, and fundamentally in recent years, we have been beautifying and improving it.
We have the best in the chosen site. A Madrid.
we neighbors limit ourselves to reading a sign at the intersection with the Carretera de las Marinas in which it says:
CARRER. I am not a Valencian speaker but I know what it means. It is not a private access, it is not a road or a pedestrian path. Of all the public roads in the city, the only ones who are not responsible are the neighbors or did they all help out Carretera de las Marinas?
Denouncing what is wrong is not going against the city, it is claiming the rights we have as neighbors and effective management. A law older than asphalt.
I always say it !! Abandoned in Las Marinas !! , they just want us to “participate” in their taxes, that is if they call us “tourists”, “Madrileños”…! Gentlemen, WE ALSO RESIDE HERE!!! !!WORK DO NOT MAKE «CAMPAÑITA»
I subscribe to each and every one of the complaints of the long-suffering neighbors of this urbanization.
The city council has been ignoring us for many years, they just want our tax money. With the €125 that each neighbor pays for garbage, the street and the manure lots could have been paved and cleaned several times already.
I suppose that the surroundings of the houses where the members of the council live will be perfectly clean and urbanized.
Solutions now!!!!!!!
Well, if that street that only gives private access to your urbanization has caused you so much damage for 20 years, what you should do is pave it among all the residents of your urbanization who are the only ones who are going to use it. Between 70 flats that you are, you go out to 100e per neighbor, a trifle for so much trouble. Perhaps it is not so much trouble and in reality what is intended is that the city council pay you the best to condition the adjoining plot and that road so that your urbanization is revalued or that it has a more “chic” appearance for when you see your friends from the capital
Dear Jose. I note a certain acrimony and political bias in his comment. Before giving an opinion, you should inform yourself. That street not only gives access to that urbanization, but even if it were, why can you have your street paved and lit and these neighbors not? Is it that they don't pay their taxes like you do? Or is it that their only crime and for which they have to be punished, humiliated and ridiculed, is it because they are from Valencia or Madrid? Do you think that the town hall could waste so much money and be a beach bar for hiring friends if there weren't so many holiday homes in Denia? Regarding the adjoining lot, it is also the municipality's obligation to oblige its owner to keep it clean and repair everything that has been destroyed in public life. And if, as the city council says, you can't find the owner, (who will have it well located to collect the IBI), then expropriate the land and all citizens can enjoy it. But I see that what you really like is to have your city turned into a dunghill, infested with rats and giving a sorry image, so that second-class citizens get annoyed.
If the situation and imminent danger is as serious as you say, spend 100e each neighbor and you solve it by asphalting it and then you pass the bill to the town hall just as I asked them to do with the abandoned lot next door
Does Urban Planning or Urban Planning sound familiar to you? And the urban public infrastructures? Or is your thing to build a building or house on any lot with a hole for waste and still? Well, that is the difference and the origin of the problem. And on top of that you tell the neighbors to do it and pay for it. What a Great "Town Planning Councilor" you can become. The City Council is looking for “professionals” like you. Salary plus “bonuses” is excellent?
I suppose that the comment of this gentleman who says that those from the capi want to show off their houses does not represent their city.
Because I don't know how to say a more absurd comment.
Citizen of the world open your mind, or buy a town for yourself.
There really are people like José who add to their lack of solidarity a certain degree of lack of intelligence by virtue of the inappropriate comments he makes
Geez, apparently you have held an extraordinary meeting to agree on the neighbors and send this letter and put the comments, hahaha
Many places lack infrastructure and improvements and no matter how much you cry, you have more priority than other neighbors
Excuse me, but there is a sign on the corner, like in the rest of the city, that says “Carrer Donzella”. From there, what you say doesn't make any sense. It is a public road, the only ones who are not responsible are the neighbors. I do not believe that the Carretera de las Marinas was paved to the neckline.
I've been here for 22 years with the same potholes, sinkholes, road closures when it rains, etc... The only thing that comes to mind is the parking lots made in various parts of the city as a positive measure.
Las Marinas remain exactly the same with twice as many buildings, without decent public transport, with the same Camino de Gandía that the horse carts saw,…
A pity because we have already seen mayors of all colors and always selling smoke.
But let's not forget that Denia is a creative city, a "paragon" of world gastronomy and an extratospheric referent of Humanism (not to be confused with Urbanism).
And this is the result of nonexistent civil Urbanism. But the office is in the Town Hall, there is a Councilor with a plaque on the door and taxes are paid to pay his salary.
ufff. I hope you excuse me. I had written the first comment and when sending it gave me a duplicate error.
I have written again and in the end both have been sent.
I'm sorry.
More or less everything is already written. And the photos are quite expressive. A site where there could be a beautiful green area. We have access through donzella street, unpaved, without lighting, dangerous, unhealthy, unworthy of a city that wants to be the capital of tourism, gastronomy, culture, hospitality, ... Is that a street? Next door, the site of the old "Yate", converted into a manure heap where flora and fauna grow at ease. Maximum fire hazard. Let's hope we don't regret any misfortune. Everything and more in the km. 1 of marine road. Uncovered ditches, sewage that does not swallow enough … More than 15 years claiming.
Second-class citizens paying first-class taxes.
We want solutions. Already!
More or less everything is written. An abandoned lot where there could be a beautiful green area. Access in unfortunate, denigrating conditions and without lighting, with the street unpaved. A danger. The photos say it quite clearly. 2 or 3 years ago they deigned to cover in a rudimentary way, a ditch at the entrance of our donzella street. But there is more to cover. We have the Yacht site converted into a manure heap, full of rubble and with a maximum fire hazard. Unhealthy. Vegetation and fauna grow at ease. Everything in the km. 1 of marine road. A shame. Second-class citizens paying first-class taxes. Not to mention sewage that doesn't swallow enough. That's fine. We want solutions now.
The situation is unpresentable, from the roundabout of the port towards the marinas it is the dark side of this city, not even the accesses to the beach are fulfilled, sidewalks without tiles, ditches without covering with the danger that it entails, full of mosquitoes and rats, the It is true that it is demeaning that a city that lives from tourism welcomes us in this way.
We want solutions NOW!!!
I live on Calle Doncella and I pay all my garbage taxes every year, but nevertheless I don't have a dump nearby and I have to do it in the dump on the farm next door. Now a power and internet pole is falling and the cables are almost on the ground and Nadir wants to take care of that and about the street and not to mention if you can call it a street
The problem is the eternal problem of the residents of the Carretera de las Marinas, that most of us do not vote in Dénia. We are never among the priorities of the City Council except to place the little sign on the portal every year reminding us that we have to pay the IBI.
Outrageous. It is as if our taxes were intended for multiple celebrations and to make up the true image of Denia's infrastructure. How can it be accepted that the city council assigns and recognizes a street with that level of finish by giving it a name? There is no will on the part of urban planning to solve it, treating everything with absurd justifications. In that same urbanization, the lighting line that leads to the main façade does not work and after several consultations with the town hall, the answer is energy saving. What bad luck, while events of all kinds are not spared, for pedestrian safety yes.
A lot of image facing abroad and exporting the name of Denia but then we have these cases...
It is a shame that an urbanization very close to the center, with access through a public road such as Calle Donzella, abandoned by the City Council and turned on all sides into a dunghill nest of rats and constant fire danger when not flooding call public road. We have an abandoned and unmaintained town hall lot and on the other side another abandoned vacant lot of the old Yate restaurant, but whose maintenance obligation is also the Town Hall's and billing it to the owner afterwards but not simply waiting for a misfortune to occur and then we will all regret it and They will come to take the photo with the solution. Please, let's be proactive and avoid misfortunes.
It's outrageous that they call that street. Given the taxes that the city council enters, they should enable the street properly since it cannot be accessed by car when it rains, not to mention a supposed need in an emergency. Solution now!!!
Unfortunately it is not an isolated case. The entire Les Marines road is in the same situation. The intersections that leave this are mostly unpaved or with asphalt in poor condition, in addition to not having public lighting and being dirty and neglected.
The taxes that all the residents of the enormous Denia pay, are only passed on in the center.
Completely agree. The city council's priorities in this regard are clear, surely based on electoral returns. But the comparative grievance between zones is beginning to be alarming. It is necessary to continue with the neighborhood fight and that the taxes really be dedicated to the real needs of the neighbors and not to propaganda and non-refundable subsidies.
I can say that I have lived in several places of different sizes and I have never seen a place worse maintained than Denia. All city roads with sinkholes, no streetlights in marinas and Montgo, without sewerage and on top of that forcing neighbors to pay for it, even paying for the main pipes to connect to. Farms without cleaning, non-existent or destroyed bike lanes, and etc, etc. Of course, we have safe purple points and we are gastronomic capital. Not to mention the ridiculous ibi we paid.