/ They suffer irreparable structural damage following the earthquakes on May 11. The City Council has issued a score of decrees of demolition, although some of them affect up to five blocks of flats. Half thousand apartments and single-family houses of Lorca are condemned to demolition as a result of irreparable structural damage posed after the earthquakes that devastated the city on May 11 and that caused nine dead, 300 wounded and damage assessed at EUR 700 million. The Councillor for urbanism, Francisco Garcia, has pointed out on Tuesday that City Hall has issued decrees of demolition twenty so far, although some of them, being of residential complexes, affect up to five blocks of flats. As explained by the Mayor, will have an exhaustive list of about 40 single-family homes that will be torn down by technical criterion and that are located in the high quarters of town, the Quijero road and neighbourhood of the Virgen de las Huertas, and also in districts such as River, Grill and the Counselor, who are rural communities most affected by earthquakes. Since this operators Monday of specialist companies working in the controlled demolition of two buildings of the forges Street, the neighbourhood of La Vina, which added 54 homes, and in the next few days will have to be torn down buildings located in the number 12 and 14 of that same street, that House 94 flats.

In this case will be torn down a whole Apple contemplates between no. 11 and 19 of the same street, including a next Park Sports track. 80 buildings with access banned last week began the demolition of the residencial Princesa, composed of five buildings, and also located in the vineyard, that, at the moment, two blocks, have been demolished although the demolition by ruin Decree affects 182 homes. Also Monday began the controlled demolition of 32 homes, most located in the bakery Street in the same neighborhood, and at the corner of vintage with gardeners, victories totaling in the neighborhood of La Vina to the building of the street Infante Juan Manuel, who collapsed during earthquakes and the Grail building that collapsed when he started the intervention for its demolition. In the list of properties that will have be torn down is also the Christ King of the aforementioned district parish, left the temple severely affected by the collapse of the Grail building. The latest signed Decree of demolition affects a building with 16 houses in the Santa Clara Avenue, at the other end of the urban case, at risk of structural collapse, which also threatens the archaeological remains of an Iberian and Roman site. 20 Decrees, of which 13 signed by the Mayor, Francisco Jodar, correspond to part of the 80 buildings which, to this day, continue to rojo-rojo code and who is banned, although 93% of 7,100 buildings reviewed by technicians from the earthquake already presented green code and are habitable. Some buildings in critical condition as the residential San Mateo, on avenida Juan Carlos I, will be preserved after the technical performances of urgency which have allowed to ensure its stability, and whose immediate future will determine the neighbors, which already evaluated the possibilities of reconstruction specialists in building pathology.