€500,000 of storm damage Housing high

MARBELLA City Council reported on Saturday, February 11, that the recent storms have caused at least €500,000 worth of damage to the Malaga municipality’s beaches.

Angeles Muñoz, the city’s mayor, visited the coastal areas affected by strong waves. She lamented that due to the “negligence of the central government, the breakwaters have not already been made.”

The mayor also criticised the fact that the council: “has to allocate a new emergency budget item to repair the numerous damages due to the inaction of the Ministry for Ecological Transition to carry out an action that is essential.

“Unfortunately we have to put up with the fact that one more year, due to the abandonment of the Sanchez Executive, the stabilisation of the beaches has not been undertaken.” She recalled how the town hall had already allocated more than €2 million to improve the coastline in the last 12 months.

“When the next storm occurs, sadly, the situation on the coast will already be very weak,” Muñoz assessed, while detailing that there has been damage to the accesses, sanitation, shelter areas, and street furniture of the beach bars.