Demolition squads are ready to bulldoze 835 ‘illegal’ homes along Portugal’s coastline – almost all of them in the Algarve – on the pretext that the areas involved are at risk of coastal erosion.
The shock announcement, made by environment minister Jorge Moreira da Silva in Parliament this week, is certain to cause heartbreak and controversy.
Around €16.6 million will be ploughed into the demolition of coastal homes, starting in May or June this year and extending to the end of 2015.
“We don’t want a repeat of scenes of destruction from the sea like we had in Fuseta years ago,” Moreira da Silva stressed in parliament. “People and property are being protected in areas where there shouldn’t be either.”
Read the full report in this week’s printed edition of the Algarve Resident, available in newsstands tomorrow (Thursday).
Photo: Praia de Faro
Photo by: GABRIEL STRIBLEA
