Over the past twenty years so much territory on the Spanish coast has been built up, that it would be enough for eight football fields. It is reported by portal ee24.com with reference to the "Greenpeace" report for 2013. In the report the company analyzes data on the building on the first 500 meters of the coast for 1987-2005.
The fourth part of the buildings on the Spanish coastline appeared just in the last two decades. In some municipalities there was only a small part of the undeveloped coastline. Greenpeace said that Valencia, the Balearic and Canary Islands have made the most significant contribution to the inflation of the bubble in the Spanish real estate market. During the period from 1987 to 2005 in these regions from 71% to 75% of the coast has been built up. The most densely built up coasts are in Malaga, Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia.
Moreover, Greenpeace identified 25 municipalities with the highest number of buildings on the coast. List is topped by Calpe (Alicante), Calvia (Mallorca), Chiclana de la Frontera (Cadiz) and Cubellas (Barcelona).\ Less built up are Fuencaliente de La Palma, Vallehermoso (La Gomera) and Villaviciosa (Asturias).
"Greenpeace" is vehemently opposed to the new law on the coasts, adopted by the Government of Spain. Under this law, the construction was allowed much closer to the shoreline than before. Environmentalists argue that the construction near the coast causing considerable damage to the security of the settlements, making them vulnerable to flooding. The greatest risk of flooding exists in the municipalities of Isla Cristina (Huelva), Pedregalejo (Málaga) and Empuriabrava (Girona).
As long as official actions to freeze the law on the coasts are not taken, environmental organizations will urge the administration of cities to boycott provisions of the Act, to care about the state of the coast and build an economic model of local development and quality of tourism with the preservation of natural resources.