The council of Alhaurín el Grande has approved grants for the Rehabilitation of Buildings 2008.

Two buildings and 44 families will be the beneficiaries of this program.

The council of Alhaurín el Grande has approved the handling of files that are included in the 2008 Residential Buildings Rehabilitation Programme and improvement of their endowments and facilities managed by the Public Land Company of Andalusia, where applications have been formalized for two buildings in the town, specifically the building " Los olivos " Urbanization in "El Parral", with three portals and 32 houses and number 37 on the portal of the neighbourhood of San Isidro, with 12 homes.

As reported Councillor of the housing area, Micaela Naranjo, "May 5 to June 5 has been open the deadline for submitting applications to take advantage of the Rehabilitation Program and Buildings have been addressed at this time by many consultations, both communities and landowners interested in these grants have been formalized and eventually these two buildings were chosen whose improvement will benefit some 132 residents."

Once approved the processing of these files are moved to the Delegation of Housing and Spatial Planning in Malaga, where it will spend a final phase.

Remember that aid has been allocated to buildings at least over two floors, whose age is at least 10 years that at least 50% of the residents of these buildings have annual revenue not exceeding 2.5 The indicator Public Revenue Multiple Effects (IPREM), and that the budget protected maximum does not exceed an average of 10,000 euros per household or 14,000 euro for the rehabilitation include structural adjustments to the building. It is also subsidizes 75% of the budget protected, 100% of technical assistance for the project, works management and recruitment and management, and the council also granted a bonus of 95% in license fees works.

"The rehabilitation of buildings has among its objectives to tidy facades and public areas, installing elevators or perform any work of modernization that improves the quality of life of neighbours and good example is the work being made in building number two calle Cristo de la Agonía which is currently under construction, "reported the Edil.

Mayor Juan Martin for his part has said that "it is a program in which we have been working long, which has borne fruit with the rehabilitation of several buildings with the momentum of the council. With this program these buildings are subsidized, and we will continue working for the rehabilitation of more buildings so that not even a building stays in Alhaurín el Grande without rehabilitating, not only for aesthetic progress that entails but mainly by the significant improvement in quality of life of neighbours," The first councillor indicated.

Alhaurín el Grande on July 11, 2008