The Centro de Desarrollo Turístico in Motril has proved a controversial building since conception and it hasn’t ceased since then.

This time it was two, huge, glass-wall sections falling off in the early hours of one morning; each one weighing 200 kilos, that has provoked the ire of the governing party. It appears that the metal supports had given way.

The building company that had put them up in the first place sent an expert round on Monday the 28th to find out why.

The Vice Mayor, Francisco Sánchez Cantalejo, who is also Head of the semi, publicly owned cleaning company, LIMDECO, together with the Councillor for Maintenance, Gloria Chica rumbled down to the building and grumbled around outside.

Whilst they were there the Motril Fire Department sent a crew to inspect the facade using one of their extending ladders and make sure that there were no more surprises waiting to peel off.

The Vice Mayor made a statement to say that the problem seems to have been a one-off one and explained that normal activities that are normally held at the centre will not be affected.
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The controversial building – the child of the previous PP-led town council – cost 14-million euros, yet even so, it was hastily finished off in time for a premature inauguration, just prior to the last municipal elections. Close inspection afterwards, however, revealed that the apparently completed building was little more than a shell as far as three of the floors went.

The suspicion, therefore, is that this breakage could be the fruit of cutting corners in the building material requirements.

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