The beachside demolitions recently undertaken at Monte Gordo in the far eastern Algarve are part of a Coastal Zone Management Plan that covers the shoreline and immediate land between Vilamoura in the central Algarve and Vila Real de Santo António overlooking the Spanish border.
This plan was approved in 2005 and eleven years later, the demolition of two old, abandoned restaurants went ahead with no public outcry as plans commence to change Monte Gordo into a higher-class tourist zone.