El Alto del Cuco: geography vacuum – the Farad

In the municipality of Piélagos was a mountain that almost a decade ago disappeared before our eyes.

And then we saw grow small houses, small developments, on the slopes of what was once the mountain of Alto del Cuco.

we saw it rise from the highway when going to work and we sounded barbaric even the Cantabrians, we are used to judgments demolition (more than 600) in coastal municipalities accumulate. It was too much for Piélagos, which adds the dubious honors of being the municipality with more extension and more sentences. There was more room to build on the beach and the next step was to give license to build on the mountain, but hinder the mountain itself.

But walk around the hillside is another sensation. It is a tour of unreality, a huge pilot development with a booth rickety sale and villas that look askance at the mountain that before was with mixed luck: houses ready to receive visitors shortly and others which only had time to build a frame, an eerie gray or orange skeleton.

the demolition of urbanization Alto del Cuco cost 3.7 million euros

the empty vacuum, Alto del Cuco received rain Friday August the rare visit of a Government of Cantabria that ‘inaugurated’ the works of demolition and subsequent six-month environmental restoration work and a cost of 3.7 million euros for the public coffers.

vice President and responsible for Planning, Eva Diaz Tezanos, boasted of compliance with court rulings -because the truth is that in Cantabria many rulers have regarded as not comply option and have reached the point that comply with the law is something that is presume- and loaded against the Popular Party, head of the City of Piélagos for decades and leave with a public tribute, with assistance from the leader of his party the mayor gave licenses Cuco, convicted of malfeasance by other matters

But from the Government of Cantabria, then held by PSOE and PRC, a report favorable environmental impact, which contradicted other reports Crotu was issued.: the disparity of criteria did not help avoid the work, which could only stop the courts, at the highest levels, following complaints by the environmental association ARCA to which finished adding the regional government.

abandoned in the Alto del Cuco

El Cuco is emptiness, nothingness : the mountain disappeared, the houses had no inhabitants, employment that was not created, the sector in which the absence of ideas and desire to strive is hoped to generate wealth and ended burdening family and public accounts of an entire country. It was a boom. Literally

Sucee that the map that runs through the folds of silence is unpredictable. Urbanism is so capricious that there are houses in El Cuco that are legal and have views on the porch empty. From the driveway every day see a giant picture of the effects of Spain brick. A cool not like to see any barbecue middle class progresses (ba).

In Cantabria there are six hundred houses with a judgment of demolition, but it was the Cuco the most visibles the problem nationwide. Not so long ago: it was a decade ago, when the bubble was about to burst, and burst to the Fadesa itself, promoter of the project and one of the first major industry to enter bankruptcy

Yes, friends. Cantabria had finally managed to make that slogan that all who have ever gone to any opening or political act: finally we were on the map. With permission from the Port of Laredo, located there, in the other corner of the geography of vacuum

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