According to the Salobreña Town Hall, work on ‘urbanizing’ the new hotel area will be completed within ten months.

Work began in March with a landing-strip-wide swathe of cleared land being cut from the back road (El Gambullón) to the beach and since then 260,000 sq/m of land has been cleared between El Peñon and La Guardia.

Sixty percent of the underground electricity network has been laid and 90% of the mains water and sewage system has also been completed.

At the moment the project is running 20 days behind schedule but the construction company, Egesur, is confident that it can make up this lost time during the street-laying phase.

If that is the case, then the whole area should be completed by June next year, ready for the actual hotels to start going up, explained the Mayor of Salobreña, María Eugenia Rufino.

The original budget for this ‘urbanizing’ phase was 4.3m euros but it has since grown to 5.6m, because of setbacks encountered.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Javier Yánez)