Lagos council's executive has registered its 'total displeasure and disagreement’ with the proposals contained in the Odeceixe to Vilamoura regional coastal plan (POOC OV) presented by the Portuguese Environment Agency.
The council has advised the public that it will participate fully in the public consultation, which ends 19th July 2016, to "justify its rejection" as, according to the council executive led by Maria Joaquina Matos, the proposal does not reflect the outcome of an earlier meeting between the council and the agency, and that it meddles in council matters.
So irritated was the council that it held a special public meeting on July 12th to express its disagreement with the proposed plan, saying the proposal fails to include many areas that had been agreed with the environment agency at an earlier meeting.
The council goes one step further and says the environment agency is being downright dishonest and authoritarian and that the plan encroaches on urban areas that come under the council’s remit and for which there already exists the Lagos Urban Plan.
This is normal behaviour for the environment agency whose president in the Algarve is Sebastião Teixeira, named locally as ‘demolition man,’ who has been instrumental in altering many of the region’s formerly natural beaches and destroying hundreds of properties on the Ria Formosa islands to make way for sand.
The Portuguese Environmental Agency is not interested in local cooperation, thus it faces opposition as it goes about its destructive work which has little to do with the environment - save for destroying and altering large parts of it.
