08-07-2010 par Aude BriauxCap de Spérone, a coastline too dangerous for walkers, but not for golfers !

In its decision of 4 May 2010, the administrative tribunal of Bastia refused Corsican associations and Surfrider Foundation’s appeal against the decision to modify the southern coastal path for the benefit of the Golf Society of Spérone.

This Society, who possess a considerable development and an 18-hole golfcourse in the area, obtained a decision from the authorities in 2009 changing the coastal path in order to oblige walkers to contour their development, far from the glorious views at Bonifacio over-looking the islands of Lavezzi and Cavallo.

The rejection of the appeal made by the associations was made on the basis of the dangerousness of maintaining a coastal path close to the cliffs and its proximity to a golfcourse, according to the tribunal.   A decision we simply can not accept as resolved.  Corsican associations U Levante and ABCDE have therefore appealed the decision with the support of Surfrider.  The case will be presented before the administrative court of appeal at Marseille, who will once again have to make a decision on the legitimacy of the prefectural order of 10 March 2009 that we continue ardently to denounce.

The Spérone Cape is the extreme southern point of Corsica, not far from Sardinia and the islands of Lavezzi and Cavallo.