The City Council is allocating nearly 850,000 euros to renovate 14 playgrounds in the city center and the outskirts

The City Council has just put out a call for bids for the work that will involve the complete renovation of four parks and the refurbishment of another 10

The Estepona City Council reports that it has put out to bid the work to renovate and refurbish a total of 14 playgrounds in the city center and the outskirts. The deputy mayor in charge of Services and External Oversight, Blas Ruzafa, explained that the City Council will allocate 841,942 euros to the renovation of these public spaces designed for children.

Specifically, the playground at Huerta Nueva, the Human Rights playground on Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Street, the playground near the Ramón Lago School in Cancelada, and the Los Niños playground on Polonia Street will undergo comprehensive renovations.

At the Huerta Nueva playground, the current play equipment will be replaced with a “Pirate Ship” multi-play structure featuring an enclosed slide, a rope bridge, and a crawl tunnel. In addition, solar-powered LED lighting and continuous flooring will be installed.

At the Human Rights playground, the existing play structures and old rubber flooring will also be removed. In their place, a three-tower play structure, a double swing, a seesaw, a spring rocker, an inclusive playhouse, and continuous flooring will be installed.

At the park located next to the Ramón Lago School in Cancelada, the deteriorated wooden fencing and playground equipment will be removed. Subsequently, a circular modular play structure will be installed, featuring climbing walls, a static hammock, a swing, a dragon seesaw, a slide, safety fencing, and shock-absorbing flooring.

At Los Niños Park, the reusable playground equipment will be inspected, elements in poor condition will be removed, and a new multi-play structure with three platforms, a swing, safety fencing, and continuous rubber surfacing will be installed.

In addition, the City Council will proceed with the renovation and refurbishment of the following 10 playgrounds.

At the playground in Plaza Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, a three-tower play structure with a climbing wall will be installed, along with new perimeter fencing and replacement of the continuous rubber surface.

At the playground in Doctor Mena Arce Square, the five existing play structures will be refurbished, and the continuous rubber surface will be replaced in all three play areas.

At La Lobilla Park, the four play structures will be upgraded, the fencing will be painted, and new wall coverings and continuous rubber surfacing will be installed.

At El Calvario Park, maintenance work will be performed on the “Garza” multi-play structure, and the other play structures will be replaced with a mixed triple swing set with a basket, a metal hammock, a carousel, and double seesaws; the rubber flooring will also be replaced.

At the park on Antonio José Jiménez González Street, civil engineering work will be carried out to expand the play area. Additionally, an interactive truck, a four-person seesaw, and continuous rubber surfacing will be installed.

At the park on Las Joyas, the multi-play structure and the seesaw will be repainted. Additionally, the car-shaped seesaw will be replaced with a sailboat-shaped one, and rubber edging will be installed around the perimeter.

At Los Pedregales Park, the four-tower multi-play structure (ladders, handholds, metal slide), the zip line, the basket swing, and the spring riders will be repaired. Work will also be carried out to excavate, align, and replace the perimeter wooden sleepers, as well as to compact and de-compact the aggregate.

At Miguel Ángel Blanco Park, maintenance work will be performed on the multi-play structure, and a double-sided interactive elephant/rhinoceros play structure will be installed, along with continuous rubber flooring throughout the area.

At the El Carmen Sports Center Children’s Park, the two-tower metal multi-play structure and the continuous rubber flooring will be replaced.

At the playground of the Federico García Lorca public school, the multi-play structure and slides will be replaced with a single-tower multi-play structure, an elephant slide, and a whale-shaped seesaw. Work will also be done to install a new 50-square-meter sandbox, new perimeter fencing, and a drainage channel.

The deputy mayor for Services and External Control, Blas Ruzafa, has indicated that all these measures are part of the second phase of renovation and refurbishment of the city’s parks and children’s playgrounds. Last year, the first phase was carried out, involving work on a total of 18 playgrounds with an investment of 1.1 million euros.

The playgrounds that benefited from the initial work were those located at the Cancelada Daycare Center, Plaza de las Nieves, the Isdabe Mayor’s Office, Blas Infante (Picasso neighborhood), Espronceda, Plaza Pescadores, Altos de Guadalobón, Avenida de Andalucía at the intersection with Avenida San Lorenzo, Jardín de la Vega, Parque de El Abuelo, Policía Nacional, Recinto Ferial, Plaza de la Comunicación, Plaza de la Concordia (Isdabe), Parque de El Ángel, Santiago Apóstol, Concha Espina, and Congreso.