JUNTA environment chiefs fear a plan to demolish the controversial Algarrobico Hotel could be scrapped if the PP wins this week’s regional elections. Jose Diaz Trillo fears that central government is dragging its feet on the agreed demolition of the Almeria hotel that was built on protected land near Carboneras. Despite the Junta signing an [...]

A MEETING this week has laid out destruction plans for the Algarrobico hotel. Environment minister Rosa Aguilar and Andalucia Junta president Jose Antonio Grinan agreed that central government will take charge of the demolition, while the Junta will organise the removal of the debris. The cost is estimated at 300 million euros. It is still [...]

By Eloise Horsfield DEMOLITION of the Algarrobico hotel has been put on hold until the courts are certain that the licence to build it was invalid. The 411-bedroom hotel was constructed illegally on the beach inside the Cabo de Gata Natural Park and campaigns – including a sit-in by Greenpeace – have fought hard against it. [...]

D-DAY – or Demolition Day – has come one step closer for the illegal Hotel Algorrobico in Almeria. By James Bryce Both the Junta and Spain’s Supreme Court have slammed developers and Carbonaras town hall for allowing the 411-bedroom hotel to be built on a beach inside the Cabo de Gata Natural Park. “It is [...]

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are up in arms over a new law that could allow golf courses and other urban developments in protected natural spaces. Both Greenpeace and Ecologistas en Accion fear that projects, like the controversial El Algarrobico hotel, could be legalized by the back-door with the new law. The Junta decree, which both groups have been [...]

ANDALUCIA’S highest court has ruled equivocally that the El Algarrobico hotel should not have been built. In a great victory for the environment, an appeal by Carboneras town hall to allow the area to be developed has been thrown out. The Superior Court of Justice of Andalucia (TSJA) ruled that no construction should ever have [...]

A JUDGE confirmed that the 50-room hotel, dubbed the ‘second Algarrobico’ by green groups can be developed on protected salt flats, the Campillo de Gata.