The Town Council discussed the TH2 area in the last Plenary Meeting with the aim of kick starting this stalled project.

Salobreña has two areas destined for hotel development; one between the Peñón and La Caleta (TH1) and the other between the river mouth and the Motril border.

The original deal, in which the Town Hall sold its 10% to the Compensation Board, envisaged 80% residential and only 20% for hotels.

However, when the Junta de Andalucia brought out the coastal-protection law, POTA, this knocked this arrangement on the head. As if this weren’t enough, a judicial decision eliminated several clauses from the deal as well.

After a year of haggling, these problems were circumnavigated, explained the Councillor for Urban Development, Javier Ortega. The Junta de Compensación and the Town Hall agreed that they had to get their finger out and start defining individual building plots.

The haste on the part of the Town Hall was down to having already received 4.7m euros from developers, etc and were facing the possibility of having to reimburse the sum – bad news for the municipal coffers, obviously.

Some of the money had already been spent on building the new bridge over the river, just up from the river mouth.

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