The Council has unanimously approved a motion urging the Junta de Andalucia to clarify ‘once and for all’ exactly what can and cannot be done as far as development is concerned in the Maro-Cerro Gordo Natural Area, a site heavily protected since 1989.
One has heard all sorts of ideas for hotels and other development, particularly relating to tourism, in this area, an area which is recognised as having a unique ecological system.
Perhaps the ideal response would be a definitive ‘absolutely nothing can be developed in the area’ and for it to remain unspoilt. There would be nothing, one assumes, to stop it being developed as a ‘tourist attraction’ by means of, for example, tours to the area. Far better than putting a hotel in the middle of a natural area.
Such ideas, however, would probably not generate sufficient municipal licence revenue as would be the case with actual construction.
The Council also passed a motion once again asking the Ministry of Culture to urgently restore the pile of bricks at the end of Torrecilla beach. The old watchtower was destroyed during the nineteenth century.
A number of the old watchtowers along the coast were selected for restoration, a long process involving the location of appropriate building materials from the period, but Nerja was not one of those chosen.