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The candidate for Mayor of Lorca proposes to develop a comprehensive project for the recovery of Historic de Lorca overview of all potential sectors involved in it: hospitality and commercial, tourist, cultural, administrative and residential

Diego José Mateos, Socialist candidate for mayor of Lorca, has appeared before the media to denounce "the state, by all known unfortunate conservation which is our Historic Area: buildings in poor condition or in ruins, shops closed, abandoned houses, walls and eaves with continuous landslides, pavements deplorable situation, exposed wiring, in short, a real state of abandonment motivated by the null bet municipal authorities ".

Therefore, Mateos states that "in recent months, after meeting with business and social agents of the municipality as CECLOR or Chamber of Commerce, and motivated by the firm commitment to relaunch the present and the future of Lorca, we advocate commissioning up of a comprehensive project for the recovery of historic, analyze in a planned and widely agreed weaknesses, problems and shortcomings and, at the same time, put on the table the solutions to them; a document analyzing both globally problems and alternatives and to treat evenly and to plan rigorously decisions about it. "

The candidate for Mayor said that "this project should include overview of all aspects in the historical district: hospitality and commercial, tourist, cultural, administrative and residential".

Hospitality and Trade

Mateos states "have to promote measures to encourage the use in buildings, shops and open spaces to support rehabilitation, adapting buildings to the rules on sustainability and energy efficiency."

At the same time, says "we should promote recovery for hospitality use of any manor, in order to install in Lorca hotel type known as" charming "as in other cities with similar historic areas".

Tourism

On the other hand, the candidate for mayor said that "the historic town of Lorca has enough elements to be a focal point in the cultural and tourist aspect, having to develop an agenda and itinerary, which complement the offer of the Castle and hostel, return to the strength Lorca culturally it has lost in recent years. "

In this sense, Mateos said that "we will work on creating a project tourist and cultural revitalization to strengthen this important asset of the city as a resource for economic development, which should involve public and private institutions, associations, traders, cultural associations, groups and collectives. This involvement will act as a measure of momentum and economic development as well as integrative and social cohesion ".

Diego José Mateos commitment to "recover cultural events, fairs and festivals which involved an attraction that projected Lorca throughout southeastern Spanish; for this, among other initiatives is to seek public-private partnership through sponsorship and sponsor of so that all the effort does not fall into the municipal coffers. "

Administrative

Mateos advocates "further promote public services are maintained or implanted in the heart, as a way of continuing to live such an environment. In this sense, says not share the withdrawal of the police station in the historic center, but fight to that at least the same bureaucratic services, such as issuing ID and complaints can follow located in the center. "

Residential

Finally, Mateos reiterates that "useless all this if we do not encourage residential area. If we do an attractive space for housing is no longer deshabiten time to attract new residents, the historical district will continue to decline."

So, Mateos aims to "promote this area again become attractive to live in it by empowering residential quality and the urban fabric of the historic, reviewing and updating the rankings and ratings of buildings and public spaces, encouraging the creation new housing quality, sustainable and equipped with energy efficiency, occupying the empty produced after the earthquakes, and encouraging the recruitment center, all through public initiatives such as grants and tax credits or revision and modification of planning ".

Source: PSOE Lorca