la font reception charges
Hi Everyone
I attach info received from our solicitor - Oscar Coll regarding the reception charges. Barry
The PRE-PROJECT has already been done. This pre-project may slightly vary subject to the owners of La Font deciding about different small points of the same; the basic lines and works of the project will not vary.
.- The Town Hall divides the urbanisation in two areas: Lower and Upper (this last one has more visual impact). La Font 65 is located in the lower La Font.
.- SEWAGE AND DRINKING WATER: they plan to connect every plot to the mains of drinking water and sewage and to the sewage treatment plant. Regarding drinking water they need to install an impelling station to pump the water up to upper La Font (this station will be installed next to the stairs of La Font). Regarding waste water, they will need to install two small impelling stations (of 1,500 liters each) also next to the stairs of La Font, they say that said stations will not cause noise nor smells, since they will be correctly executed and isolated. The Town Hall will take care of leaving the inspection/connection chambers ready in the street, next to each property (should every owner need to locate the same in an specific place more convenient for connection, you need to let them know). It is up to each owner to execute and pay the necessary works to connect the house to said connection/inspection chamber.
.- PUBLIC LIGHTING: they plan to install lampposts of some 4 meters height at lower La Font, and short street lamps at Upper La Font (to avoid the light pollution). The design and cost of said lamps may vary, and the Town Hall is ready to go along with the design that the owners of La Font would choose (as long as it is a reasonable cost).
.- STREETS: they plan to put two layers of new asphalt/tarmac. They do not plan to build sidewalks, but only to mark the pedestrian walk with paint, in order to reduce costs. They also said that the boundary walls of some properties in La Font are invading the public street, they said they will not be too picky with this issue, but some will need to be put back when the streets are re-tarmac.
.- ELECTRICS: the electric lines in lower La Font are underground (as the present regulation requests). The electric lines in a large area of upper La Font are installed above ground with posts, they leave it up to the owners of La Font to decide if they wish to put said lines underground (recommendable although not compulsory). Another area of upper La Font does not even have proper electric lines with posts, the connections have been done in a really messy way, although authorised by the Electric Company, they recommend as well to put those lines underground. The final connection from the net to the house is up to every owner to execute and pay for.
.- TELEPHONE LINES: the same applies to the telephone lines, they recommend to put them underground but they leave this decision up to the owners of La Font.
.- ESTIMATE COST OF THE ABOVE SAID WORKS: in the region of 2,700,000 EUROS without considering the cost of electric and telephone lines being installed underground. They reckon some 20,000 Eur per plot, and in the region of 25,000 Eur per plot if the electric and telephone lines are put underground.
.- TIME-SCALE: once the project is finalised (some 2-3 months they say), the Town Hall will put it out to tender, and the best offer shall be chosen (some 4-5 months more), the execution of the project will take some 10-12 months. Regarding payment of the 20-25,000 Eur by each owner: they do not have a very clear schedule, they say that an initial bill will be charged before the works commence and that further bills will be issued as the works are being finished/certified. They need every owner to present a bank guarantee for the overall bill of 20-25,000 Eur before the project is put out to tender.
The issue of the “average profit bill” to be charged by the Town Hall to each owner after the urbanisation works are finished was raised. The Town Hall will charge this bill as long as the law does authorise them to do it so (it is not clear that they can charge the same, they will study the case and inform), and it could be of 5% min and max 15% of the added value thanks to said urbanisation works.
The Mayor said that the Association of Owners of La Font will be notified for future meetings, and that it would be convenient that one or two persons are appointed to talk to the Town Hall regarding small issues (i.e. design of street lamps, etc …).
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