Popular beach "held hostage" to developer

[Paphos Life]

A stand-off between Peyia municipality and Leptos developers has left visitors to the popular blue-flagged Coral Bay beach without access to kiosks and forced to use stinking toilets....

Read the article and chat about it below...

[Yioula]

I’m sure guests from the Coral Beach Hotel would use this beach.........throwing your toys out of your pram because your use to getting your own way could be rather short sighted.......

[PaphosAL]

Shameful situation. Do Peyia Municipiality not have access to some sort of compulsory purchase law in order to resolve this impasse?

And Leptos are doing their reputation no good at all here, in terms of communal input...

AL

[Dominic]

This has been going on for a few years now. When we first started holidaying in Cyprus, Coral Bay was a nice beach to visit with good amenities. We were shocked one year when we visited to find the amenities shut and seaweed piled high on the beach. We've never been back to the beach, though do occasionally pop into the carpark to watch the sun set.

On the plus side, it encouraged us to be more adventurous in looking for beaches over the Akamas and Polis way. We now wouldn't want to go back even if it was fully restored.

[Jimgym]

Is anyone surprised? Aren’t they the same developer ruining the sea caves?

[PaphosAL]

Don't think so, Jim. I might be mistaken, but I'm fairly sure the current planned developments on Sea Caves are by the same company who are doing Cap St George.

Large heavy structures very close to fragile limestone cliffs. How long before they tip into the sea to join the shipwreck, I wonder?

Another sad aspect of Leptos over recent years has been their attempts to evict Paphiakos from their rescue animal site in K.Paphos, in order to build on it. Shame on them... It's a site that contains Dept of Antiquities recognized monuments, for a start! (Strangely removed from the CTO tourist map during the last decade. I wonder why?)

AL

[MacManiac]

I can’t remember which forum must have either advised its users not to write the full name of these developers but to replace letters with asterisks or had set up the forum to automatically replace the name of the developers with the asterisk version. I thought it strange at the time. Does anyone else remember this from the last few years?