Cyprus Tourism Organisation hands tied for development on beach front property
Movement to set Cyprus Tourism Organisation straight on set citizen priorities for #dasoudi in Limassol
All attempts for evasiveness by authorites have been in vain.
If the Cyprus Tourism Organization had any hope that the citizen defense of what is left of Limassol's natural reserve was to weaken in time, then from the looks of yesterday's demonstration, the strength and relentlessness of the movement has only been consolidated.
The movement has managed through its focus and relentlessness a singular feat in Cyprus, and supported by the facebook platform, S.O.S. - ΣΩΣΤΕ ΤΟ ΔΑΣΟΥΔΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΣΧΕΔΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΤ !! is currently managing support from 10,866 members. It has also managed that representatives from different stakeholders come together to defend legally the cause, the Limassol Architects Movement, Limassol Citizen Movement, Friends of Earth Cyprus, and the movement SOS – Save Dasoudi Forest.
A first demand is to clarify the
relationship between the Forestry Department and the CTO; the leasing
rights granted by the CTO to private investors; the procedure for
issuing planning permissions, and the resulting studies justifying the project - what appears as the typical 'Old boys Network' of entities behaving with a complete disregard for citizen will.
The citizens of Limassol, defending themselves from being collateral victims to lack of transparent, clear and legal development procedures, seem to finally have placed the CTO in a position that will oblige it to invert its interests in favour of the natural assets of Limassol and Cyprus.