Update Limni Mine project (PaphosPress)

[cyprusmax47]

There is an update of the newest progress of Shacolas's large Limni Golf project in the Press. There a drawings which show that the second Golf area will be around the place where Dominic's last posts were showing us an area like on the moon.....

https://pafospress.com/%ce%b1%ce%b4%ce% ... %bf%cf%8d/

Here a google translation in quite a good quality...from Paphos Press:

"Licensed Limni Bay in Polis Chrysochous

Resort of high quality and aesthetics Two golf courses, hotel, dwelling units Fully protected environment Important development project New jobs
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After many years of efforts and numerous specialized studies, Cyprus Limni Resorts and GolfCourses Plc announces that it has secured the planning permission of the Limni Bay resort in Limni, Polis Chrysochous, after fully satisfying the national environmental legislation and all its recommendations European Commission, in order to fully guarantee the integrity of the turtles' habitats.

The Limni Bay resort includes two 18-hole Signature Golf Courses, a club for every stadium, a high standard hotel, villas and self-contained villas, leisure facilities, a historic Lake Museum and an extensive network of paths and cycle paths, landscaping. The whole project will be extremely high quality, will include many other environmental elements and will be fully in harmony with the natural environment of the area, which will be highlighted.

In order to achieve the above objectives, the Company had recruited for the Masterplan and Landscape Design the internationally recognized American House EDSA for the architectural design of the villas, the hotel, the golf clubs and other buildings of the project the world-famous architects Foster + Partners, and for the design of their two golf courses, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are considered among the best in the world to design golf courses.

The basic design principles of the Project have taken into account, among others:

Restoring the natural environment and enhancing the beauty of the landscape.
Effective protection of the turtle nesting beach.
The use of new technologies to the greatest extent possible for the saving of water, energy and other valuable natural resources, as well as the use of local materials and elements of the traditional architecture of the place.
Maintaining and enhancing the natural endemic vegetation of the area.

It is noteworthy to note that the Company has already spent tens of millions of euros to rehabilitate the natural environment by moving 12 million cubic meters of mines and minerals, residues from the mining use of the previous owners.

Besides the positive impact on the economy and the social well-being of the inhabitants of the area, the implementation of the Project will also create various other enriching projects for culture and the environment, such as the historic Lake Museum,

the Environmental Information Center for turtles, nature trails, extensive plant cover with endemic plants, etc. The implementation of the project will create hundreds of new jobs at the same time and will result in new activities and services for local residents, especially for young people, with multiple benefits for the entire Polis Chrysochous region.

Cyprus Limni Resorts and GolfCourses Plc expresses its gratitude to those who have contributed over time to the licensing of the Project.
Cyprus Limni Resorts and GolfCourses Plc "
Nicosia, August 8, 2018

Max

[cyprusmax47]

It looks great and sounds as if perhaps all the ground work has been done to ensure the environment is protected and even enhanced..it is still located an a designated protected Natura 2000 area... although part of me still questions if it really is the right area for the size of this project...and will it attract sufficient "golfers" to ensure its success....given its location....but they have talked the talk....hopefully they will now walk the walk....

This is how the deep hole looked in the 70's when I have seen it first time. In the 90's it was full of water after they stopped working there... So it was a large job of several years to fill it all in and level it, how it is now.( Dominic's blog pic # 3)


Most of the material came from the dump near the beach!
https://www.paphoslife.com/blog/limni_mine
AC