Agadir Authorities Continue Demolition of Illegal Beachfront Structures

On Thursday, the local authorities proceeded to demolish cafes and restaurants illegally erected on the public maritime domain, more precisely on the beach of Imi Ouaddar, north of Agadir. These buildings, transformed into cafes, restaurants and guest houses, generated substantial revenues for their owners during the summer season. They would have been appropriated with the complicity of former local officials and certain auxiliaries of the authority, believes the daily Al Akhbar. This campaign will continue in order to demolish the many anarchic constructions established without authorization on the coastline, says a local official.

Recently, several illegal buildings have been demolished in the seaside town of Aourir, located on the public maritime domain, as part of a series of similar campaigns carried out in recent months on the beaches of several municipalities in the provinces of Agadir and Chtouka Aït Baha. Four villas belonging to a tourism company in the Taghazout region were completely razed. Their owner is accused of having added, without authorization, additional rooms. Another company was not spared. It had illegally developed spaces in the cellars of 24 villas located in the new seaside resort of Taghazout.

The local authorities also ordered buildings built without authorization on the public maritime domain in Imi Ouaddar by a real estate development company. The owners are accused not only of having exceeded the authorized height limits by adding a floor to two pavilions and an additional level in the basement, but they had also modified the facades of this complex.