Now the construction of housing is allowed at a distance of 100 meters from the coastline. This court decision made it impossible to implement the plan to protect the coastal corridor adopted by the Andalusian government and included a ban on housing construction at a distance of less than 500 meters from the coastline.
The court ruling concerns 62 municipalities that were previously included in the plan to protect the coastal corridor. Now the construction of the coast is allowed here, but at a distance of not less than 100 meters from the sea line: this is the meaning of the Law on the Coast.
By adopting the above-mentioned plan, the junta of Andalusia deprived the region of an important income item and a lot of jobs related to the development area of the coast.
The court delivered its verdict as a result of considering an administrative suit submitted by two housing developers who were injured by the junta of Andalusia, the plan outlined above: they had to freeze several projects for the construction of residential facilities on the Costa del Sol.
