The move to enlarge the Alcoholera area in order to adapt it to leisure use required the OK from the Junta: the Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica Simplificada and the Informe Ambiental Estratégico, which came back approved.

Mayor Luisa García Chamorro, considers this a “transcendental” step. She says that the final approval of the SG MOT EL-3 project will give young people an alternative recreational venue rather than having to find it elsewhere. She hopes that it will quickly become a “great leisure area for the whole of the Costa Tropical.”

She went on to praise the “unity and stability” of her administration which “transmits security to investors” and those interested in the project. The next step, she explained, would be setting down the basis for administrative, leasing contracts for those wanting to set up business within the Alcoholera precinct.

The Councillor for Urban Development, Antonio Escámez, said that they were very happy that a project focused primarily in the younger generation can go forward and at the same time recuperate a space that was in abandonment.

Editorial comment: this “unity & stability” that the Mayor claims rests solely on Councillor Escámez, who switched sides with the condition of being able to retain the Urban Development post that he had enjoyed under the PSOE, and the desertion of two of the three independent-party council seats to the Mayor’s party. We know the price that Sr. Escámez exacted but not what deal was reached with the other two. Calling this “unity & stability” is fanciful at the very least.

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