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Dune and dusted by Costa del Sol
March 18, 2010 • Environment • 5 Comments
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• ANGER: Sand storm of controversy over protected dunes |
ANDALUCIA officials have been accused of opting for rampant coastal development over the preservation of Marbella’s sand dunes.
The Izquierda Unida (IU) has criticised both the Partido Popular (PP) and PSOE for agreeing to allow construction at Barronal de la Morera in Marbella.
Both parties backed the 2004 local development plan which designated the area for urban use, despite receiving almost 2,000 complaints from residents and environmentalists.
Furthermore, IU proposals to make the beach a natural monument were rejected in the PP-controlled Marbella town hall and PSOE-led Junta.
The sand dunes are environmentally important according to biologists at the University of Malaga and the Spanish ornithology society (SEO).
But 152 homes have been approved on two-thirds of the 75,000 square metres of beach.
Many endangered birds will come under threat including some on Andalucia’s red list of threatened species.
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Utterly disgraceful!
Is it possible, just possible, that money changed hands before approval was given to the developer???
Steve comments like that could be considered slanderous. To hint that it was a possible and not a fact will offend all bribe taking, nose troughing, gravy slurping “politicians” everywhere.
Pretty much sums up Spain’s attitude to their environment. They could not care a less about it. More concrete!
never have I come across a bigger collective of stupidness than i have in andalucia, and on so many levels – it’s frightening, really.