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Left Bloc MP joins fight against Portimão three hotel project

vasconcelosLeft Bloc MP and campaigner, João Vasconcelos, has requested an urgent hearing with the Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Conservation of Nature, to clarify the planning proposal in Portimão at the clifftop site, João de Arens.

This hearing follows the contested construction of an 822 bed, three hotel real estate project in countryside between the beaches of Vau and Prainha.

The project had a public consultation that ended on March 15th with the Council slammed for not allowing public access to the documentation.

Locals and the environmental lobby, including Almargem, say the project will destroy, "the last green window to the sea of ​​the city of Portimão," and Vasconcelos agrees.

"The area of ​​João de Arens can be considered the last natural stronghold of the coast of Portimão, where there are many indigenous rare and exotic plants as well as many species of birds. It’s very close to the Ria de Alvo and is located in a Natura 2000 area,” according to the local MP.

Vasconcelos says "it’s urgent to preserve our environmental heritage and landscape, so that the citizens and the generations to come can enjoy it, for a better quality of life," emphasising that the public is fed up with more speculation and concrete along the Portimão coastline.

The MP says it’s essential that the real estate project and its impacts are discussed with the government’s environment department.

"In addition, the project in question collides with the Regional Plan for Spatial Planning in the Algarve (PROTAL)," says Vasconcelos.

 

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0 #5 Denby 2019-03-29 10:08
If the photograph is portraying the exact proposed site, then l can't see how planning permission will be given, as the photo shows, there is very narrow access to this promontory and cliffs are notorious for erosion.
I can't think of any planning authority that would put their signatures on an agreement that could end with disastrous consequences as their nanes will be linked to this forever.
0 #4 Marta 2019-03-24 14:23
Corrupt local council, the mayor and cronies are no better than their predecessors, disgusting!
+1 #3 Bev Gibbons 2019-03-24 07:44
Such proposals for yet more and more beds make Portugal look Stupid - and smacks of corruption. As we all know, more beds does not equal more tourists. The high season periods are full enough. The challenge, and it is always the same challenge, is to improve the uptake in low season. The coastline from the sea is just one giant building line.. I remember how the Portuguese would say in the 7o''s "oh no, we are not going to spoil the Algarve. We don't want it to be like Spain"
+1 #2 Ricard 2019-03-24 07:14
An example is the development at Morgado golf
party visible from the A2. A beautiful valley has been desecrated with unfinished hotels and villas. It looks like an urban warfare training site!
+1 #1 Mike Williams 2019-03-23 12:09
Why do the Portuguese tolerate continued frauds on them by their Public Administration a.k.a mafiosi? All these alleged planning enquiries nationwide are total piss*akes - aping developed countries - as the scam here was to with hold the planning documents. Other classic scams are combinations of a much reduced viewing time due to specialist staff not being available to discuss the projects, advertising the consultation far away in the Diario da Republica (i.e denying it locally for as long as possible) along with inadequate or misleading maps, impact assessments and ID's of the proposers. Yet Portugal is supposed to have had, or be capable of, a European standard of public administration over 30 years ago!

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