12 Jul 2009 12:36 AM:

Hi John and Debbie,

Welcome to this forum.

Yes there are a few of us UK owners linking up and sharing info and experiences, and we've met or spoken to a couple of other apartment owners. We attended the last Community Meeting back in March and I have a translation of the minutes done by Oscar who is part of the new management team,likeable chap and he speaks good English. So I can send you the minutes if  you let me know your email address.  Be in touch.

Regards

Ron and Catherine 

Community thread: Roof tilers in Campodi Gibraltar area

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05 Jul 2008 12:00 AM:

We were just wondering if anyone had witnessed any signs of progress in recent months ? We were last there in mid May and prior to that late January. There did seem a glimmer of hope with the change to a new administration team. The new President Javier Exposito and his Vice President, Antonio Biedma had  put a notice up on the board, asking everyone to work with him and be patient, and it was in English. We also noticed that more UK sounding names have joined the list of residents ( that may or may not be a good thing) ! We learnt from a resident of the villas down the hill on the right, that our president is something to do with the police force and that he has had a meeting with their president and the management of the tennis club with a view to forming an alliance that would have a stronger voice when dealing with the local authorities etc. So that all sounded very positive. It also seems probable that more properties are going to be built in the hollowed out bit of land below us, though I would think it unlikely to be anytime soon in the current climate.

We expect to be that way again in September
Regards
Ron & Catherine

Community thread: Roof tilers in Campodi Gibraltar area

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28 Jul 2007 12:00 AM:

Looks like Helen & Kev have woken the forum up a bit, so thought we'd better join in!  We met Helen & Kev at Las Abejeras at the end of April and we had a few drinks and shared our respective stories.  We met up again at beginning of July when I was about to return to uk after one very hot week, and they were starting a two week stay. Like most we bought "off plan" back in 2003 and finally got the key in December 2005. We've been over together or seperately every 3/4 months since and Catherine stayed in the apartment from Jan 1st to late April this year. We've attended one of the residents meetings, held at the tennis club, and had quite a few conversations with Khalid Zahy who is El Presidente of the Communiidad, and lives in one of the penthouse apartments. As we understand it there are several legal actions being taken against the developer/contractor to get defects rectified and the project finished, but the process, as in the UK is painfully slow. Add to that, there is the issue over the 300 odd car parking spaces which sit empty underneath the final phase of the development. The developer was initially asking each resident to pay 15000 euros for one of these dedicated parking spaces, which really wound up the residents, who believed that parking was included in the deal. Subsequently the developer came back with a discounted offer, bringing the cost of  a parking space down to around 12000 euros, but I gather there have been no takers! So financially that alone is quite a big issue to the developer, and is probably contributing toward the inactivity on his part. I'm not sure if a few non-Spanish residents could have any influence on events, but it may be worth a shot. One thing we should do as a starter perhaps is to push for meeting agenda's and minutes to be translated into English then at least we'd know what was going on. We could also get meetings with Khalid Zahy set up as he speaks good english. Catherine and I will be there again in October, but in the meantime we'd be interested to hear your thoughts, so keep posting.

Ron & Catherine

Community thread: Could this be the beginning of an "action group"

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