It will stand on a plot of 15,143 m2, will have dressing rooms perfectly equipped for workers, a large covered hangar for the mobile park and allow the transfer of the current municipal tank of vehicles.
The Councilor responsible for the municipal cleaning company, Limusa, Fulgencio Gil, has informed that the Municipal Council will provide this service with a new, modern, functional and operational Logistical Center that will replace the current, allowing Limusa, and Especially its workers, have an infrastructure with full guarantees.
It is a project that involves a total investment of 1.5 million euros.
Fulgencio Gil explained that this Logistic Center will serve as the basis of the permanent operation that is responsible for the urban cleaning of our entire municipality.
The new infrastructure, planned with updated criteria to optimize the provision of the service and respond to any extraordinary demand if necessary, will be placed in the floor bag destined to equipment called Sector 4, located in the left bank of the river Guadalentín, specifically in the Close to the Felipe VI Sports Complex.
It is an area for this type of uses in the General Municipal Plan of Ordination and which represents a total area of ​​60,000 m2.
Councilman Limusa stressed that to have this infrastructure, the City Council will obtain a plot of a planned size of 15,143 m2, which will allow the transfer of the elements of the company currently existing in front of the aforementioned sports complex.
It leaves behind, in this way, a location that had remained small and obsolete, giving way in the new location to a base of maximum operability that will allow to house a battery of offices of administrative profile, mechanical workshops for the maintenance of the vehicles that Are part of the company's fleet, a large hangar with pergolas for the parking of these, tunnels for washing and totally new changing rooms available to Limusa workers, which will be an obvious improvement over the current conditions.
Fulgencio Gil explained that the choice of this location avoids any kind of discomfort to potential neighbors, ratifying the special sensitivity that this Municipal Administration demonstrates to the opinion of citizens.
It is, in fact, at a considerable distance from dwellings, and it also makes it possible for sweepers, who can not travel long distances due to their characteristics, to have a close base.
The Mayor of Limusa has also anticipated that this new Logistics Center will host next to all of the aforementioned the municipal tank of vehicles, which to date is in the parking lot that the company manages in front of the fairground of the Huerto de la Rueda.
This management will double the capacity of the parking lot, covering the needs of parking in the area especially during the holding of events such as the Fair of September and the Trade Shows and Congresses held in Santa Quiteria.
We are talking about setting up a parking lot that we know will be needed in the near future, given the magnitude of the new Trade Fair and Congress Center that all Lorca will enjoy.
Fulgencio Gil has stated that the work plan on which the new Limousine Base is being developed is expected to obtain the land for a maximum term of 3 months, starting work if there are no unforeseen events of great importance during The last quarter of the year.
It should be noted that for the implementation of this project will proceed to conform the relevant Contracting Bureau, according to what is marked by the internal instructions of the company, following the line of Limit governed by purely technical criteria and avoid political interference that both damage They did in the past.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca