The Mayor of Nerja, José Alberto Armijo, announced that the B.O.E. (State Gazette) had given the green light for the drawing up of a project for a promenade on El Playazo.

The actual terminology used by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment was ‘A coastal path and environmental recuperation of the shoreline.’

The sum budgeted for the project is 71.3m euros giving companies interested in bidding for the contract until the 24th of May. The actual construction cannot take more than eleven months.

The Mayor feels that with the announcement a “door has been opened to a project that the people of Nerja have been defending for years, so that it will one day become reality in our municipality.”

The Town Hall foresees that the project will be drawn up on 32,000 sq/m of land, coinciding with the last 30m strip of shoreline included in the 100m strip that is protected by the Ley de Costas. The first 70m strip, closest to the shore, will be transformed into a large beach that will be three times larger than at present, with 70,000 sq/m of sand.

The Mayor, of course, has given his administration a generous pat on the back, bless him, but who wouldn’t in his position.

The Mayor finished off by pointing out that this would be the first step in the urban development of the land behind it, as is foreseen in the PGOU (General Urban Development Plan).

(News: Nerja, Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)