The Town Planning and Housing reported that damage to appliances and buildings are situated around 2.4 million euros, although 8 of these owners finally abandoned homes present help, another 45 are uninsured.
The Town Planning and Housing City of Lorca, and Agustín José Joaquín Peñarrubia Llamas, reported that on January 3 ended aid application deadline for the rehabilitation of homes damaged by the floods of September 28, having channeled a total of 228 cases through the Joint Office installed by the Consistory in the Agricultural Training Center.
Peñarrubia explained that "the law required that the assessment of the damage was done by a public official, so to facilitate clearance from the Department of Planning have visited the 236 homes that they asked, but have finally given up eight apply, it reached an agreement with the insurance. Of which finally appeared, housing 45 families were assured. "
The Town Planning said "the 236 technical visits, structural damage were detected in 7%, having to make only a partial demolition of a dwelling and no complete demolition. The total value of damage to buildings and fixtures 236 homes in these totals EUR 2,455,408.86, of which 718,550 euros are fixtures. therefore, if we consider what has been said, we could appreciate by about two million euro damage to buildings and fixtures normal houses that are not covered by insurance. "
Llamas explained that "among these applications there is no community of owners, are all single family homes. However, may have been directly petitioned the Government Office, which then have to be attested."
It has also become clear that most of the damaged houses are concentrated in the districts of Campillo, Torrecilla and listening, in the vicinity of the wadis of Biznaga and Bejar, and part of Purias and Cazalla ".
Housing The mayor stressed that "the administration handles, instructs and resolves aid files is the Department of Emergency and Civil Protection of the Ministry of Interior, but the City Council we wanted to help the affected Lorca, advising on the presentation applications and attaching to the expert report that allows speed limits of resolution. In this sense, we are aware that the Government Office and is requiring affected not submitted all the required documentation to complete the record as to respond before. "
José Joaquín Peñarrubia emphasized "the effort being made by the municipal technical services to speed up the procedures to all urban efforts, especially those related to earthquakes and floods, despite having a very high workload."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca