The infrastructure to support surfing was left out of the interventions to be carried out by the Polis of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina and the mayor of Aljezur is not satisfied with the decision of the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA), which he accuses of having "lack of willingness to work”.
José Amarelinho, speaking to the Sul Informação, criticized the way the process was managed and hopes that the intervention of the Secretary of State for the Environment can reverse the intention to place the works under the Coastal Border Management Plan (POOC).
Amarelinho says that «this is the “capital sin” of this Polis». The mayor recalls that the issues of infrastructure to support surfing and beach support were debated within the Polis board of directors and put to the APA and regrets that, «four years later, the national APA will say “no, no, no, that will be solved when it is the POOC”».
For José Amarelinho, not solving a problem «as simple as this one in surfing, in which it was just a question of enacting preventive measures with suspensive effects on certain domains [jurisdictions over certain areas], in various beaches, and promoting public tenders, (...) that would be promoted by the municipalities, or in areas of public maritime domain, made official by the APA of the region”, demonstrates “lack of will to work”.
“This shocks, because we are talking about private initiative. It would be a direct investment from the people who would win the contests. Above all, we would make rules on the beaches. We were going to demolish those situations, and some are not legal, because we would have already awarded and held the contests. Apparently this is not what will happen», laments the mayor.
The mayor of Aljezur has already mentioned the situation to the Secretary of State for the Environment, who "completely agreed" and said that "he was still going to see what I could do, because as far as I know, there is also something similar in the Center and North of the country." .
"I hope that the Secretary of State for the Environment can make a judgment at the head of the national APA and resolve this issue," he adds.
For Amarelinho, “it does not make sense that these concentrated entities of the State are constituted as feuds and that they are stones in the cogwheels of programs as decisive for people as the Polis”.
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