PROTEST groups and political parties are lining up against yet another horrific development scheme on the edge of Cabo de Gata natural park. Ecologistas en Accion and the IU party have joined forces to fight the project that would see two golf courses, 1,500 homes and a hotel ‘megaproject’ built inside one of Europe’s driest [...]

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 [...]

A DOZEN Greenpeace activists have started squatting in Spain’s most controversial illegal building. By Wendy Williams The group are refusing to move until their demands are met to knock down the El Algarrobico, which was built on a beach inside Almeria’s Cabo de Gata Natural Park. The move comes exactly three years after the license [...]

GREENPEACE is petitioning the new mayor of Carboneras to take a stand over the controversial Algorrobico hotel. The pressure group hopes that the new Independent leader will take action over the illegal 411 room hotel that was built on a beach in a protected natural park area. It is pleading with Salvador Hernandez to correct [...]

As the British media follow up our story on the plans to ‘develop’ virgin El Palmar beach on the Costa de Luz, Harriet Alexander takes a look at the storm that’s brewing on the coast…

A COMPANY that has started work on a controversial hotel before even getting planning permission is facing a fine of up to 2.4 million euros. Circulo Agroambiental SL is being taken to court by the Junta after it began work on the 50-room hotel in Campilla de Gata, in the Cabo de Gata-Nijar natural park. [...]

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.

JON Clarke takes a ride down Andalucia’s most alluring, unspoilt coastline the Costa de la Luz – or the ‘The Coast of Light’ of Cadiz.