February 2025 update

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 March 2025 12:17 Written by Steve Dent Sunday, 9 March 2025 12:17

                                                                                          The Heights
                                                                                  February 2025 update

Presidents comments,
We are still waiting for the official list of apartments with VV licenses, this is getting very frustrating.

While we are waiting for the VV list, we are also making another list of apartments we definitely know are being let as holiday rentals ( having spoken to the people who are in them, and how they booked on the internet). These apartments are illegal, paying no taxes or registered with the Local Council/Tourist board, but using all our facilities on the complex, also making the lives of many people who live here a misery, my wife was verbally abused by a holiday maker when she asked if they could stop singing at the top of their voices, she was sworn at and told they could do what they wanted.

Apologies for the info I gave you last month, regarding electricity supplier Endesa, the offer of 9 cents per KWH was only available till end of December !!.

If you are a keen gardener and have an hour or two a week to volunteer your time, can you let me or one of the team know, it will be helping to tidy up some of the gardens on the complex, which will assist our site manager.

Complex news/ issues/work updates.

Don Quixote restaurant has closed it’s doors, the current owner decided it wasn’t viable to keep it running anymore and closed down 2 weeks ago.

We have had a few water leaks in the gardens, this is due to the irrigation hoses becoming fragile after so many years, we will be replacing them when and where needed.

We had a problem with a car parked in B block garage not in the correct space for some weeks, after some investigation the issue was solved as a genuine mistake and the car was moved to it’s correct space. Can we remind everyone, when entering the garage or leaving a parking space, please stick to the speed limit, there are small children walking into the garage and around cars, also please use your horn when using the entry/exit ramps to let other motorist know your on your way.

On the 11/2/25 early morning, 2 cars were set on fire outside Diamonds bar just up the road from the Don Quijote restaurant, both were completely destroyed, this was 2 of 12 cars set on fire the same morning around Los Cristianos. The Police have now recovered the video footage from a previous incident, that happened outside The Heights a few months ago.

Due to issues/ complaints of large delivery/removal vans blocking the entrance to B block garage door, we asked Nicanor, our site manager, to make and fit some permanent barriers to stop this happening in the future, these are now in place, hopefully this will resolve the issue !!.

Some owners/residents on the complex, pointed out that they found it difficult to open the main entrance gate using the existing handle, we asked Nicanor to make a larger handle and fix it in a horizontal position to make it easier to operate. This is now complete.

We had 2 water leaks this month, one where the apartment above had left a sink running with the plug in, and gone out, I was in town that night, so thanks to John for dealing with that one, then another the following week where a hose had burst while the owners were away, and the water was pouring in to the apartment below, John and I dealt with that one. So it’s important to make sure you turn the stop valve off above the front door if you are going away.

We seem to have people who think the cleaners are here to take their rubbish to the Basuras for them , they are leaving bags of household rubbish by the lifts, this has happened twice this week, I expect they are holidays makers, as these apartments don’t have the Community Rules displayed inside!! Why would you!!

The swimming pool.

No major issues with the pool, just waiting for 5 clear days to complete the work on the surround, weather permitting, it has been pointed out that the pool area tiles are looking a bit grubby, I have to agree there are some areas that need a deep clean, so if it’s possible, will also be addressing this while the pool closed.

We purchased some new umbrellas to replace the broken one’s, but people are still leaving them up after they leave the pool, the other Sunday there were 2 blown over on to the sunbeds.

Library open every Wednesday from 10am to 11am, located by the post boxes. Not on public Holidays.

If you need to contact me, please call 683 16 54 16

Emergency Night/disturbance,

Starts at 11pm till 7am, you can call them on 671 14 66 16, please use them.
Thank you for taking the time to read this update,
Thanks Steve