Anfis’ scrutinized beach project is under ongoing assessment, and is not looking like good news. Further to our article on August 2nd 2016, Anfis’ Tauro Beach project has been stopped for the time being with the main reason being the severe floods that the residents had in the last high tide. This was not due to stormy weather, just simply a normal high tide. Residents in the area are suffering from dampness and water entering their properties of up to 40cm, causing electricity cuts and damages to their electrical appliances and much more. If the issue continues these residents will need to be re-homed. There are already 40 written complaints with the Guardia Civil from the local residents, detailing their properties damages.
The main problem is the fact that the beach prior to any development, was more of a cove with natural wave breakers in the form of the volcanic rocks and stones, since the whole area has been cleared back and sand has replaced the large boulders and rocks to make way for the beach and promenade, there is no natural break for the tide. This has caused the high tide to enter 50m more inland than it did previously, causing chaos to the properties on the first line of the coast.
It is still in the air who is to blame, as with many of these large development projects, there are a lot of important parties’ involved in the planning and the execution of these projects. At the moment it is looking like it is between the Environment Department of Mogan, the coastal authority and Anfi. It is being investigated whether Anfi had any influence over the initial planning stages. If indeed Anfi are found to be liable as will be the project developers, there may be huge compensations to pay for damages already caused to the neighbourhood. The halt on the project is also putting a lot of monetary pressure on Anfi, until an agreement has been reached, there can be no continuation of the project, and money is being frittered away with employees on stand-by to continue with the construction.
That aside, the solution will also need to be looked at, this may mean, in the worst case scenario that the cove may need to be re-instated to its original state, which would mean an abolishment of the project entirely, having wasted a lot of Anfis’ funds. Or, on the positive side, an amendment to plans to take into consideration new man-made wave breaks and securing the residential properties from further damage. What we don’t know yet is how Anfi look to recuperate this loss of funds, will this be passed on to Anfis existing clients in the form of raised maintenance fees? Only time will tell what will happen with this, but Anfi are really getting pulled through murky waters this year.
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