A group of residents from Salomar 2000 has managed to bring the paseo work to a grinding halt, thanks to a judicial decision in their favour.

This is a result of three residents, who represent a large group of them, took out a lawsuit against the Town Hall.

This goes back to the beginning of July when these residents arrived and found the paseo work in full swing. What’s more, the paseo work had “eaten” some of the community’s property; i.e., a tennis court and some of the lawn around the swimming pool.

These disgruntled residents collected 200 signatures to support the claim that the knew absolutely nothing about this ‘arrangement’ between the block-community governing body and the Town Hall.

Under this agreement, La urbanización ceded 1,071 sq/m of beachfront land so that the paseo could continue, in exchange for over 2,000 sq/m of publicly owned land behind the urbanización.

After a few demonstrations in front of the paseo work, these residents took out a lawsuit against the Town Hall in order to halt the work provisionally; i.e., until a more complete judicial decision is reached to put things back as they were.

The Mayor, María Eugenia Rufino, says that she is “surprised” and “laments” the legal route that the some of the residents have taken.

In the meantime the Town Hall has put forward their side of the argument to the judge and immediately cancel the land-swap deal, which she says was carried out “with the best intentions.”

She finished by saying that their course of action was now to place a compulsory purchase order on the land; although the urbanización was built before the present coastal law (which increased the coastal margin from the shore inland) this land is considered ‘public domain.’

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)