The current mayor keeps posing for photos announcing new developments that never seem to happen.

There was a sign in the vacant lot behind Lidl that said they were building a sports centre but it has been there so long the sign has fallen to bits or been vandalised. There is a big one in Playa Arena, so anybody fit enough to sport could walk there, it isn't far. Do they really need another so close? There is a derelict playing  court of some kind next to the fire station.

In the next vacant lot at the top of Calle El Carmen they announced they are building a medical centre last year despite there being one just around the corner next to the square. No sign of any works when we we there.

I wonder if the new super expensive apartments will attract any more money.

Some talk was that the barranca would be an additional parking area, with steps leading back into the village close to the taxi office. A good idea I think!

The place has certainly gone down hill since we first visited in New Year 1995, and we were so taken with this wonderful area we purchased our apartment in 2006. In those times the Plaza was all wonderful granite, at the top was a fantastic Restaurant called Sinatra's. The other side of the play area was a gift shop/dry cleaners called Glad Rags, next to a well stocked small supermarket and up the slope a local British (I know that doesn't make sense) building company, that also housed a kitchen and furniture showroom. Up the steps to the one way road, pass the Tea Room there was a quieter Irish Bar. All that has now gone, including the beautiful granite, which has now been replaced with off white block paving. Not a great colour for disguising the dog dodahs and chewing gum marks. Also two fantastic Lidos, as we had no swimming pool in our complex, we hung out there with the kids a lot. Now Oasis still closed, and the Lido at the marina closed and building work has stopped. So another facility gone. We were able to walk around the marina sea wall, as an excursion, free at your own risk. Used to crab off it with the kids, that sadly has been closed for a long time now as well.
Also every holiday we would walk the Masca Gorge, and get the pick up boat back to the marina. The pontoon at Masca bay was damaged maybe 5 years ago in a storm, so the council forbid tourist boats from using it, it is still closed! People come from all over to do this trek as its featured in Lonely Planet.
And this so called Pontoon is nothing more than a few square metres of rough hewn concrete. I think a team of four could repair this on a long weekend. A complete joke!
As for the weather, yes it is not so reliable, but I don't mind the odd rainy or overcast days, as we use these to drive out to explore new places. And If the weather is changing, it's changing everywhere. Here in London last Friday we had a covering of Sarah sand, and the skies remained reddish till the following morning! quite crazy!!
Unhappy you say vote the council out, the problem is we are in a tourist town, and if not for us it would not exist, but we don't get to vote, so the politicians only appeal to the locals for their needs and then there votes. And I guess with Covid our importance has dropped another tier.
We are over next week, and am sorry to hear it is quiet again, but will be doing the usual rounds!

I have to agree with all you say. Weather seems to be worse each year since we bought our apartment. I think we got a bargain because ones in the same block now sell for a lot more, or at least are on the market for a lot more.

We have four German friends who are good cooks and very rarely eat out, so they only spend in the shops. We eat out one meal most days.

The paving doesn't seem to last any time at all despite seeing no frost. They seem to use a mortar that crumbles after a few years of mainly sun. We already see crazy paving that has been repaired breaking up again in the few years we have been coming.

The lighting is randomly out so we carry a torch at night even though all the streets we walk on to get home are supposed to be lit.

They pump untreated sewage into the sea and the outlet at PS must be too close to the shore as it always stinks near the port. There is pumping station on the Alcala path, which presumably also discharges into the sea, but that doesn't smell. It must go further out I think but no way would I swim in the sea around Tenerife.

Next door to Palillos De Oro and above Casa Pepe towards the northerly end of Playa Arena beach.