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Date Published: 23/03/2022

ARCHIVED - Marbella promenade receives emergency 450,000-euro facelift after storm damage

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Repairs are being carried out to Marbella's Paseo Marítimo on the Costa del Sol "as a matter of urgency"

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Marbella promenade receives emergency 450,000-euro facelift after storm damage

Marbella Town Hall has begun a 450,000-euro facelift of its promenade and beaches and closed a section to the public as a safety precaution following extensive storm damage.

"The bad weather has once again caused significant damage and loss of sand on our coastline, mainly in the areas of Casablanca, La Fontanilla, El Faro and La Venus and to a lesser extent, in San Pedro Alcántara and Nueva Andalucía," explained the Town Hall, which has been forced to carry our repairs "as a matter of urgency".

In addition to the replacement of 10,000 m2 of sand in various areas, repairs will have to be made to a breakwater wall next to the promenade structure in Marbellamar, which has been destroyed.

Significant damage has also been caused to beach furniture and more than 7,000 metres of electrical conduits will have to be repaired to "restore safe lighting".

"Entire phases of the electrical systems were sulphated in areas that are difficult to access, especially in the stretch from the Don Pepe Hotel to the Marbella Club," explained the Town Hall.

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In addition, to avoid risks, the council has closed 45 metres of Paseo Marítimo in the most affected section in front of the Marbellamar urbanisation and has asked residents to use a temporary detour until the retaining wall is repaired.

"We have started emergency work on removing the existing berms on the beaches using specific machinery, and will hire three articulated lorries, a rotating machine, a bathing lorry and two loaders to complete this stage of repairs."

Two of the articulated lorries will work on the beaches of Casablanca and La Fontanilla for 10 days, whilst the other will lorry, a dunk truck and rotating machine will remove some 10,000 cubic metres of sand from El Cable beach and deposit it on La Fontanilla.

Restoration work will also be carried out at San Pedro Alcántara, Nueva Andalucía, El Faro and La Venus.

The cost of various repairs to the Paseo Marítimo is expected to reach 250,000 euros and a further 200,000 euros will be required to restore the beaches, cash which "could have been saved if the central government had heeded the successive demands that the Town Hall has made for a solution to the problem that Marbella has due to the lack of breakwaters".

Now, the Mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, is once again calling on the Spanish Government to "commit itself once and for all to Marbella and provide a definitive solution to the continued problems on the municiplaty's beaches".

"We have a lot at stake, more and more, compared to other tourist destinations and we cannot continue to fear that a storm will carry away the sand from one day to the next and leave our coastline completely bare," she said, adding: "It is essential to speed up the processing of projects to provide the coast with breakwaters."

Image: Ayuntamiento de Marbella

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