Environmental association Quercus and the Algarve Trade and Commerce Association both have strongly opposed the inadequate environmental impact study presented by Swedish multinational IKEA in support of its planning application for a retail park near Loulé.
Today sees the end of the public consultation period, and the two associations have expressed “outrage and disgust" and propose that the impact study should be rejected for many reasons, the main one being that the study, unsurprisingly, only looks at the economic benefits of the scheme and does not dwell on the impact to the environment.