ANGER OVER DELAY IN BUILDING WORK

LOCAL businesses and bar owners in Cala Estancia are angry over the discomfort being caused to clients by improvements to the sea front which should have been completed at the end of March but are still going on. One British bar owner in the little port near Can Pastilla said yesterday that he intends to sue the council for loss of earnings and others may well follow suit if they can present a valid case. “We were told the building work would have been finished by the end of March, but it is still going on right in front of us and I have already lost a month's worth of income,” he said. While the Can Pastilla part of the project has just been completed, swing round into Cala Estancia and roads are up, piles of bricks and rubble line or block the roads, some of which are closed and littered with building equipment and machinery. “If I had known the work was not going to be completed on time, I would not have opened, what is more, despite having informed the council I would not be open over the winter, I have still got six months of incinerator bills to pay,” the bar owner told the Bulletin. “The hotel across the way is about to fill up with British holidaymakers as usual, but they've got to cross a mine field to get to us bars,” he added.
Last month residents complained to the council about the dangerous state the work was being left in at night and on weekends.