Pollensa council and the Costas are having a battle over the state of the Pinewalk and the general management of the beaches, basically the council are threatening to withhold 220,000€ from the Costas unless they make the necessary repairs and maintain the area. Here is the (not very good) Google translation of report in the DDM.
Pollença amenaza a Costas con no pagar el canon de las playas si no invierte en el Moll - Diario de Mallorca .
J. FRAU Pollença Council has urged the territorial demarcation of Costas to fund a performance "urgent" in the Paseo Anglada Camarasa of Moll, in an advanced state of degradation, or otherwise attempt to "compensate" for the lack of investment in the canon of beaches annually to pay the municipal institution Costas and amounting to more than 220,000 euros.
The consistory 'pollencí' as a priority action in the first line of the Port to reverse the deteriorating situation that presents the emblematic Paseo Anglada Camarasa, which has accentuated because of recent storms. The City describes as "unfortunate" the current situation of the ride and adds that this causes a "great unrest" in the town, as there have been complaints from residents, traders and representatives of civic organizations, who believe that the walk from the first line is a "symbol of local identity and tourism." Apparently, since 2001, the ride has lost more than seven percent of the trees that characterizes it and that "brings personality" to this urban roads in front of the port. Recently there have been some pines reaching down fifteen feet high. In addition, the incidence of the sea at the bottom of the walk "causes instability" of heritage trees that still resist.
At a recent meeting of municipal officials with the Coastal Authority, a public entity that the Spanish government has defended the thesis that the repair of the damage to the walk corresponds to the Council to be "maintenance". The territorial demarcation ensures that "no budget to implement the necessary actions", an answer that does not satisfy the municipal institution, which advocates a "comprehensive action" because, in his view, "is a social, tourist, economic and security for people. "
explains the Councillor for Tourism, Maria Buades, Costas "raises each year on the beaches of the municipality over 220,000 euros," when the last investment "true depth" executed by the demarcation at the port is 1992, date of creation of the beach Tamarells dels. "It's been twenty years, it's time to reinvest in the points that generate wealth for them to continue contributing to the whole state," said the popular mayor. "We can not allow visitors and residents have to endure this degradation, each year we have more complaints from tourists about the look that gives the ride," adds Buades.
Meanwhile, Mayor Encrypt Tomeu said yesterday that, in another recent meeting with representatives of Coasts, they have undertaken to study the financing of some investments for next year 2013, but for now, have been downloaded on the City's responsibility to remove trees that have fallen apart.
Mayor Moll believes that "can not focus a new tourist season in these conditions" and that the City "will not at any time that the walk remains in poor condition." Failure to reach investment, they are "compensated" with the canon of the beaches, warns Encrypt.
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