“The citizens of Campania demand more accessible, clean and free beaches: the sea belongs to everyone, even more so the coasts.
In this country we are also privatizing the air, in the form of concessions, and it is no longer acceptable. In fact, those who govern the Region demand thanks, as 30% of the free coasts have been granted to citizens, against that 70% of the coast left in concession to the "beach lobbies" with truly paltry annual fees.
This beach “plan” absolutely needs to be changed”. This was stated in a note by the Campania regional councilor of the mixed group, Maria Muscarà.
“In Campania, it is not only erosion that is reducing free beaches, but also many other critical issues along the coastline: civil and industrial sewage discharges, delays in purification, lack of reclamation, increasingly impactful tourism, illegal building.
This is why, in this scenario, the Puad (Plan for the use of state-owned maritime areas) must guarantee a framework of rules useful for the redevelopment of coastal areas, their accessibility and use by all. Instead, the Plan proposed by the Regional Council aims to keep intact, if not to aggravate, the current state of over-exploitation of the coastline, whether sandy or rocky”.
Thus in a note Legambiente Campania "The Puad that Campania needs – declares the president Mariateresa Imparato – must promote and enhance ambitious projects of environmental, economic and social innovation that, with the redevelopment of coastal areas, guarantee the relaunch of the tourism sector with a view to sustainability and enjoyment for all.
For these reasons, tomorrow morning we will meet under Palazzo Santa Lucia together with the network of associations that have been active in recent days to ask President De Luca and Councilors Discepolo and Casucci, the Regional Council and the Regional Council to take a step back to take many steps forward, nominating Campania to be the leading Region in Italy in the idea of sustainable management and enhancement of the coast".
For Legambiente Campania “the Plan envisaged by the Region establishes a percentage of free beaches among the lowest recorded in Italy, just 30%, and reduces the shoreline from the current 5 to 3 meters to remove more space from free use.
Even more serious is the fact that the Puad, unlike what has appropriately occurred in other regions, was drawn up without the necessary Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) procedure required by the European Community for all plans and programmes that interact with the environment, an absence that undermines its very legitimacy.
It is clear that the Plan, which also lacks a careful examination of the existing concessions and their management methods, does not set itself the objective of protecting the landscape and the environment, nor that of respecting the citizens' right to bathing. In fact, for the purposes of choosing the concessionaire, the reward mechanisms envisaged actually incentivize concreting, fixed fences, the installation of non-removable structures for tourist functions ancillary to bathing, instead of promoting proposals that improve the accessibility and usability of the state-owned area, the use of non-fixed and completely removable equipment, suitable measures to safeguard the environment and the landscape".
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