Dear Owners, Our new gardening company started on 1st February and the difference was immediate. Our permanent, full time gardener, Inuso, has been working incredibly hard and has achieved an astonishing amount in his first month. Hedges and bushes have been trimmed, dead trees removed, soil turned over and weeds removed. Inuso’s work is methodical, clean and non-stop and he is a pleasure to have around. The pots outside block 1 have been renewed and the plants that were there have been relocated to other areas. Carlos, our previous [...]

After reading the discussion concerning parking I would like to clarify some points. It is not acceptable for anyone to just decide to park in a garage space that does not belong to them. There are a number of residents who do have agreements to use someone else’s parking space when they are not here but that has been agreed between them and the owner of the space in question. Parking has and always will be a problem in Phase 1 and it is simply because many residents, who [...]

Dear Owners, January turned out to be a busy month although maintenance issues were relatively few but did include the replacement of the pump in the children’s pool 1. The papers regarding our claim against the previous administrator were submitted to Court and now we wait. With regard to the situation with the gardening company the Governing Board met on 14th January and unanimously agreed that Almajardin should again be given notice that their contract would now terminate on 31st January. Our new company will start on 1st February [...]

Dear Owners, December passed fairly quietly although we did suffer a broken water pipe in the square and in the garden area of Pool 2 both of which have been repaired. Our Christmas lights added the usual festive cheer to Phase 1. Pool 1 is being monitored as there has been some sporadic loss of water. Our new cleaner started on 3 December and is doing a very good job. Tomi remains signed off from work so we continue to issue Samuel (his replacement) with a monthly contract until [...]

Dear Owners, November was a busy month – all the palm trees were pruned by an outside company, the pump to Pool 1 was repaired, two new arms were fitted to the main entrance gate and repairs to guttering were carried out in blocks 2 and 9. An accumulation of rubbish in the storeroom of apartment 409 was cleared and the rats, which had been in that storeroom, disappeared with the rubbish. Those rats may have been the ones who chewed through a fibre optic cable which affected the [...]