Construction in the coastal resort of Sunny Beach (Slunchev Bryag) and the nearby tourist settlements “cannot and will not” stop before mid-May, Nessebur mayor Nikolai Dimitrov said, as quoted by Dnevnik daily.
According to Bulgarian legislation, construction on the Black Sea coast must stop on May 1.
But Dimitrov argued that there were no reasons to stop construction at the start of May. “The hotel owners insist on the construction stopping, but they forget that they were also once building,” he said.
Construction in the eastern part of Sunny Beach was almost completed, so construction noise would not bother the first tourists, who arrive in April and May, according to Dimitrov.
Nessebur chief architect Valentin Dimov said that there were a lot of construction plots and the construction ban would create losses for the investors.
Many of Nessebur’s municipal councillors also agreed that halting construction should be postponed because the infrastructure construction had just begun, Dnevnik said. Nessebur municipal council is to meet Deputy Regional Development and Public Works Minister Savin Kovachev to try to convince him for a delay on the building moratorium.
The executive director of Slunchev Bryag AD, the company that manages the resort, Malina Stratieva said that the construction would not cause inconveniences for the tourists as it was mainly in the nearby settlements or the western part of the resort. However, the absense of infrastructure would cause the hotels significantly bigger damages.
