The recent decision by the ruling party to force landowners on the TH1 to ‘urinate or get off the pot,’ sort of thing, has met considerable opposition. We covered this on the 19th of last month, online, by the way.

Using more journalistic terminology, the Town Hall has introduced legislation that will force landowners of undeveloped land in the TH1 area into developing this hotel land as planned, or to sell it so that it can be used for the established purpose of building the planned hotels; i.e., sell it to somebody who will.

They have done this by introducing the Municipal Registry of Derelict Buildings and Undeveloped Building Plots.

Opposition party, Adelante Andalucía has publicly come out against this move, claiming that, “This measure reproduces a failed, urban-development model which threatens to , the future of the municipality and all of the Costa Tropical.”

They say that this kind of development will encourage “speculative tourism” which has had already known consequences along the Andalusian coastline, such as the loss of biodiversity, pushing rental prices up, creating unstable, seasonal-only employment and over using dwindling water resources.

The Spokeswoman for this local branch of Adelante Andalucía en La Costa Tropical, Verónica Correa considers that the Town Hall is smoothing the way for “predatory tourism” that puts fast-return profit before the general welfare of the majority.

She was especially critical of the way that this move was rushed through, lacking transparency and citizen participation, in just 30 days.

It’s not only the TH1 (between the Peñón and La Caleta) and TH2 (The other side of the river) that has drawn her criticism but also Playa Granada within the municipality of Motril where land is being gobbled up, putting population pressure on the coast, which, by the way, is largely land with a tendency to flood.

Editorial comment: you need only to travel along the N-340 to Málaga and beyond to see the results of the 70s/80s, urban-development chaos. An even better example would be Benidorm where cramming hotels onto beachfront areas is ugly to an extreme.

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

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