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Date Published: 09/06/2022

ARCHIVED - Villas Caravaning will stay open... for now

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The campsite has been granted an eleventh hour stay of execution, but there is more work to be done to bring it up to scratch

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Villas Caravaning will stay open... for now

Cartagena City Council has declared that the Villas Caravaning campsite in La Manga can remain open for the time being, after it had its operating licence suspended on May 18 for infractions relating to a lack of fire safety measures.

The administrators and the residents’ association of Villas Caravaning have now presented a dossier to the City Hall in which they authorise the installation of 26 fire hydrants and two large-capacity hydrants to remedy these deficiencies, which Cartagena has accepted as sufficient to keep the campsite alive for now.

There are still many other health and safety issues that the Council has identified and ordered the campsite to resolve, as well as unauthorised building work and home refurbishments that do not have the requisite planning permission.

For now, Villas Caravaning has been granted a reprieve, provided they continue to invest in improving their safety standards. But the powers that be in Cartagena have stil not taken off the table the possibility of closing down the campsite in future and evicting the owners of the almost 2,000 plots of land on the site.

Image: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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