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| To increase the shadow areas and reduce the temperature in the summer months | In addition to alleviating the high temperatures that are reached during the months of May to September in the municipality, it is a boost for the reactivation of a business damaged by "the circumstances that are occurring due to the paralysis of the sector due to the health crisis that we are living.

"The Councilor for Urban Planning and Environment of the City of Lorca, José Luis Ruiz Guillén, has reported the start of the work of placing awnings on several streets in the city center to reduce the temperature during the summer months.Ruiz Guillén explained that "we have started the installation of shading awnings in Corredera, Alporchones and Almirante Aguilar streets.

A placement that seeks to reduce the heat in these pedestrian streets, during the warmer months of the year, creating new shady areas" .The Edil has detailed that "it is an installation that will be carried out until the year 2021 during the months of May to September within a pilot project at a European level, called 'Life Adaptate', and in which our municipality participates and with which we deal to compare the temperatures that are reached in these streets before and after the placement of awnings, as well as the benefits of their installation and also with the aim of establishing local measures that help combat climate change.

"José Luis Ruiz Guillén has indicated that "in addition to the thermal sensation at street level, we want to verify the reduction of the temperature on the pavement as well, which helps to reduce heat in the city and serve as an incentive to reactivate commercial life during These months, moreover, with the circumstances that are occurring due to the paralysis of the sector due to the health crisis we are experiencing, it is even more necessary.

"The Town Planning Councilor has revealed that "with the start of phase 1 of the deconfusion de-escalation caused by the coronavirus, we are working to resume, little by little, life in our municipality, yes, taking all hygienic measures with our workers to guarantee their safety and that of the rest of the neighbors.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca