Two beach-based businesses in La Herradura, together with one in Almuñécar, have received a 15-year lease permitting them to remain where they are.

La Herradura Windsurf and Dani’s La Herradura had been faced with an obligation to move their businesses from their actual location to the ends of the bay (Peña Parda) which are completely unsuitable places from which to launch any kind of craft.

It was in 2020 that these three businesses (the third one Windsurf Velilla) requested permission to occupy their areas of the beach, which comes under Dominio Público Marítimo Terrestre. The fact is that all three business have stood, quite legally, where they are for the last 30 years but Costas, not known for being reasonable nor logical, had decided that they had to be moved.

Finally on the 8th of June last year the Provincial Delegate for Costas (a Central Government body) informed the Servicios Centrales de la Consejería de Sostenibilidad, Medio Ambiente y Economía Azul, that they had approved the requests.

The original leases had expired in 2007 and La Herradura Windsurf, Dani’s La Herradura & Windsurf Velilla had been fighting to get a new one since then.

Businesses along the Paseo de Andrés Segovia and ones on the beaches generate a lot of employment, especially ones like the three mentioned in the summer.

The Mayor of Almuñécar, Juan José Ruiz Joya, said that receiving the new leases ended “seven years of suffering, uncertainty and struggle.’ He considers that it is incomprehensible that these three families that have been operating their businesses for almost 30 years should face being shut down and thus lose their livelihood.

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