Government U turn on beach Chiringuito restaurants

Government U turn on beach Chiringuito restaurants
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By h.b. - Jun 27, 2009 - 2:54 PM

Juan Carlos Martín Fragueiro - EFE

The Ministry for the Environment has now said the restaurants can stay on the sand without disciplinary action taken against them

The Ministry for the Environment has completed an about turn and announced that Chiringuito beach bar restaurants are to be allowed to remain on the sand in Spain.
Only those where a move is easily possible off the sand will do so, and then only if the owner is in agreement.

It’s a new concession on the part of central Government who had announced plans to impose the 18 year old Ley de Costas, Coastal Law, which indicated that all the beach was public land and the restaurants should therefore move off it.

But the General Secretary for the Sea, Juan Carlos Marín Fragueiro, who said three months ago the Ley de Costas would be strictly followed, has now said, speaking in Málaga, that Chiringuitos are ‘beach installations’, and that ‘no disciplinary action will be taken’.

Despite the U turn the plans to look at the legality of each concession individually continues, as do plans for the Junta de Andalucía to take over responsibility for the coast in the region. That said it falls to the local Town Halls to ensure that the conditions linked to the Chiringuito concessions, on safety for example, are adhered to.

Meanwhile the Partido Popular in Andalucía has announced that it is to present a motion which describes the beach restaurants as ‘a natural part of the landscape’.

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