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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:06:20 GMT

FIGURES just released show that the Costa del Sol is growing - and growing fast.

Four towns on the western coast currently have plans in the pipeline for the construction of 200,000 new homes, with Estepona and Mijas set to have 82,000 and 71,000 respectively, 50,000 added to Marbella and a further 2,000 earmarked for Manilva.

The details come with the publication of the Costa del Sol Territorial Plan which forecasts a population of 1.7 million people for the area by 2015 and more than two million by 2030, based on town hall construction projects, census data and urban planning reports from the Costa’s 11 municipalities.

Some districts are also intending to increase the amount of land they put aside for building projects as is the case with Istán where it is to be quadrupled.

On the basis of an average of four people living in each home, it is estimated that new housing developments in the four municipalities will represent an 800,000 increase in the overall coastal population.

On top of this can be added building projects currently taking place in the other seven townships which, together with the Costa’s existing population, make up the 1.7 million figure.

Meanwhile, a row is brewing between local and regional government, with the regional government putting a ceiling on Marbella building levels, a decision which, understandably, is not going down too well with the town hall.

A building restriction of 50,000 homes during the next 15 years while seemingly turning a blind eye to higher levels in other municipalities has led Mayoress Marisol Yagüe to accuse the Junta de Andalucia of having ‘double standards’.

However, Public Works Minister in Seville , Concepción Gutiérrez, has declared that Marbella town planning ‘is going to have to alter radically in the future if it is to keep within the boundaries of legality’. SOURCE - Euro Weekly News