As every summer, the Town Hall reminds beach users of the Municipal Ordinance on the Use and Management of the Coastline which prohibits the installation of chairs, sunbeds, or sunshades before 9:30 a.m. so as not to hinder the cleaning of the beaches.
This measure prohibits the indiscriminate occupation of the public domain and makes special reference to the occupation of the beach with elements such as chairs, deckchairs, and parasols from the early hours of the day.
This trend makes it difficult to clean the beaches, so the ordinance establishes that all items installed on the beaches before 9:30 a.m. may be removed and the owners denounced.
The ordinance also states that umbrellas, chairs or deckchairs left for more than three hours without the presence of their owners throughout the day may be removed. If there is evidence of these elements being installed without the presence of a responsible person or owner, the Town Council, through the Local Police and its cleaning staff, may remove these elements from the beach and transfer them to the Municipal Depot.
For some years now, the Town Hall has received numerous complaints during the summer about the reservation of space on the beach, as when users arrive at the beach midmorning, they find metres of beach occupied without the owners of the elements installed being present.
The councillor for Beaches, Pere Moll, pointed out that "we want to guarantee the work of the beach cleaners, so we appeal to the civic-mindedness of beach users to ensure that the beach is not occupied without them being present".
The removal by the holders of the articles deposited at the Local Police checkpoint will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the tax ordinance regulating the police, good governance and taxation of non-sedentary sales.