Armona's Intervention and Requalification Plan will be approved "by the end of the year", guaranteed this Monday, 21 August, Environment Minister João Matos Fernandes, during his visit to the Algarve.
The member of the Government told journalists, on the sidelines of the signing of a protocol for the construction of the new wharf on Ilha de Tavira, that he was aware of the process concerning the existing housing nucleus on this barrier island of Ria Formosa and that he intended to resolve it. it still in 2017.
The same guarantee was given to the mayor of Olhão, in a meeting between António Pina and the minister of the Environment. At that meeting, João Matos Fernandes «made it clear that, also by the end of 2017, the concession of Armona to the Municipality of Olhão will be renewed, for another period of 30 years, with a new territorial delimitation, in order to safeguard the interests of all how many have a house on the island», according to the municipality of Olho.
«The result of these talks once again showed that we have in the Ministry of Environment a privileged interlocutor, attentive to the specificities of a territory such as Ilha da Armona and its people. We were able to demonstrate to the Minister the importance of these two documents and he has been sensitive to our appeals. Today is a very happy day for all the people of Olho, in particular the inhabitants of Ilha da Armona», considers António Pina.
The approval of the PIR of Armona and the fear that some houses, namely those whose owners are foreigners, will be demolished, led a group of people to gather in front of the Paços do Concelho de Olhão last week.
At the time, the president of the Chamber, who received a delegation from the demonstrators, already anticipated that guarantees could come out of the meeting he would hold days later with João Matos Fernandes.
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