The new bylaw regulating the Municipal Registry of Derelict Buildings and Undeveloped Building Plots was approved in a Plenary Meeting of the Town Council yesterday.

It was far from an unanimous vote in favor because the governing party, the PSOE only had the far right party, Vox supporting the motion. The Partido Popular abstained and Más Salobreña voted against it.

So, what is the Mayor after? He considers that the fundamental objectives of this initiative is to pressure the landowners on TH1 into developing this hotel land as planned, or to sell it so that it can be used for the established purpose; building the fabled hotels.

The Councillor for Urban Planning, Juan Gutiérrez, explained how the hotels would miraculous create employment, both in the construction phase, as well as staffing them once they open.

The far-right, Vox spokesperson, Manuel Martín Montero, a.k.a. the Antichrist, had an inevitable bitch about the “shantytown” going up on the vacant TH1, which in reality is just one couple surrounded by several lean-to structures and is not a settlement teeming with The Great Unwashed.

He considers that the ruling party shouldn’t be so permissive about this. Whether this proposed lack of permissiveness should mirror the IDF’s jaunt in Gaza, was not specified. He considers that the appearance of such hovels tarnish the town’s image. Perhaps he considers that napalm would enhance it.

Which brings us to Más Salobreña, who consider that the bylaw is a “mere absurd challenge” laid at the feet of the reluctant; i.e., the landowners who are holding out. Spokesman Pedro Ruiz de la Rica, stated that the bylaw was “useless.”

María Carmen Vílchez, Spokeswoman for the PP, explained that her party’s abstention was the result of a lack of “participation and transparency.” In fact the PP put forward their own motion but withdrew it after being told not to be silly. OK, nobody actually said that, but we all know that they all thought it!

The Mayor chirped back up and said that the bylaw requires that owners fence in their plots and clean them of excessive vegetation. He is desperate to see hotels going up like in a Monopoly game with lots of dosh swirling into the municipal coffers so that everybody can get off his back about hotels down there being as scarce as rocking horse droppings.

I’m bored with this one now and so are you, so let’s just wind the article up before I write something even more silly… sillier, even.

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

Keywords: TH1, Hotels, Plots, Registry, Abandoned buildings, Undeveloped Building Plots, Mayor, Plenary Meeting, Approved, Bylaw.

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Reader’s comment: “Never waste an opportunity to read editorial silliness… I’m cruising on the N-340, hey that’s Salobreña, we’ve arrived! Well, almost…

Did anyone in that meeting raise concern about how those thosands of hotel visitors in their cars and coaches constantly coming and leaving, are going to access that pristine avenida waiting for them? If they have a plan for it, tell us!” – Thor

Reader’s comment: “The hotels were planned with all amenities tied in correctly? Nothing flowing into the sea? I thought they were planned at four stories high but in reality like the monstrosities at the far end of the beach area. They secretly wanted to go to six stories, claiming they could not make a profit at four. Well done the council for sticking to their guns. The eyesore by the baker’s roundabout, will that ever be finished? It’s not what but who you know. You only have to look at the Peñón area; beachfront spaces taken up by illegal restaurant, a casa built above a garage opposite, tad too high by a story. Ordered to take it down to a reasonable level. Has two patios instead. Who you know etc.” – Patrick Barry Storey