More than half a hundred soldiers, men and women, wearing a uniform or in civilian clothes are involved from the 08,00 Hour Saturday, in a cleaning and gardening action in the Residential District of the Air Base 11 (BA11).
. No collaboration was requested from the Municipality of Beja or the Parish Union of Santiago Maior and SĂŁo JoĂŁo Baptista..
The action was decided last Thursday by the command of the unit, having a resident/military man revealed to Lidador NotĂcias (NL) that “we were summoned by mail, where it was also requested that, in case of impossibility of attending, we justify the reason”, said.
The BA11 neighborhood is undergoing an intervention in terms of painting buildings and tarring the streets, but the unavailability or lack of gardening personnel has meant that the does not have many herbs and bushes and trunks scattered in some spaces. The most iconic building in the neighborhood is the “Torre”, with 10 floors and 60 apartments, is one that presents an advanced state of degradation, as some of the spaces at the top of the building serve as sleeping pigeons.
the realization, from next monday, of another important exercise in BA11, o ETAP-T 2022, which has the presence of French military, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Indus Kingdom and Spain, beyond the air force (FAP) and Portuguese Army, will have led the unit's command to promote the cleaning of the neighborhood.
City Council and Parish Union make sporadic interventions in the neighborhood, whose management is under the direct administration of the unit's Command, who has as commander since the past day 25 October 2021 by Colonel Carlos Lourenço, through the Support Group. According to the local authority, “there is a protocol for the collection of garbage in the neighborhood”, justified.
The Air Force Public Relations Office was asked questions about the action and whether they are known to the FAP Command, whose answers we await.
The Residential Neighborhood
The Residential District was built almost 60 years with the arrival of the investigative units of the German Air Force (German airforce) and has a total of 330 housing. This is a residential area made up of streets, parking lots, green area and various social support facilities. Starting from 1993 and the output of German Beja, the neighborhood passed into the possession of the Air Force.
Entrepreneur intended to recover the “Tower”
Philip Cameirinha, the hospitality sector of the entrepreneur, agriculture and wine, intended to recover the building to create apartments for short-term rentals, which would invest over 1,8 million.
Negotiations with the Air Force began in early 2018, the businessman met, at least three times, with the military, He made a proposal, came to visit the facilities with the then commander of the unit, but if at first the answers were non-existent, then the business was no longer viable “because they may need the facilities, given the changes brought by the possible construction of the new Lisbon airport, Montijo in the Base ", justified in June 2019, Philip Cameirinha.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
