Municipal gardening contractor returns to Camposol

Gardening contractor teams return for part of annual work schedule

The contract for the cleaning and maintenance of public parks and gardens throughout the Mazarrón municipality was awarded to the company STV Gestion in April 2023. The contract is valued (including tax) at nearly 6 million euros, which includes many of the public cultivated areas on the Camposol urbanisation. The contract had a bumpy start after the tendering process was interrupted by legal challenges which were eventually thrown out by the courts.

In view of the types of plants and trees distributed around Camposol, which fall into the clasifications of “Type – C: xero gardening or similar” and “Type - E: palms”, the contract shedule for the urbanisation is 2 to 4 times per year.

The contracted schedule initially started on Camposol in early May 2023 taking a few weeks and work teams arrived again on Tuesday morning (January 9, 2024) and will work on municipal council owned green areas as listed in the contract which includes the parks, roundabouts and other green areas on Sector A as well as roundabouts and central reservations on Sectors B, C and D. The work will consist mainly of lopping fir trees and pruning palm trees, cutting back other plants and clearing weeds and other unwanted vegetation as well as tidying litter in these areas.

STV Gestion SL are a large regional company, having contracts with the regional governments of Murcia and Alicante and local councils including Torre Pacheco, Águilas and Fuente Alamo, they also have contracts with individual urbanisations including Mar Menor Golf Resort, La Torre, El Valle and Condado de Alhama.

The STV Head of Services has previously said that initially he expects to have 3 teams working on Camposol and when the workload is accessed to put in place a service rota plan. He has also confirmed that the waste vegetation would not be disposed in the Council’s garden waste skips. Adding that instead the waste would be taken away by STV vehicles for disposal in one of their own facilities.

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