AN ambitious plan to build an 18-hole golf course, two four-star hotels, 450 homes, 956 apartments and a commercial centre in Barbate has been given the green light. The development, adjacent to the La Breña natural park, has been approved by the Junta after being delayed for several years. The Següesal Golf Resort, which will [...]

THREE Costa de la Luz mayors have united to oppose a wind farm scheme a few kilometres offshore. The trio from Conil, Barbate and Vejer insist that the scheme – which would create hundreds of jobs – would ruin the coastline. They claim that the 1,000 megawatt project would also endanger their fishing stocks, if [...]

JON CLARKE takes a trip along the Costa de la Luz, Andalucia’s most unspoilt, if sometimes rather breezy, coastline. OVERLOOKING rows of vines and a sea of undulating umbrella pines the restaurant high up in the hills above Tarifa is extremely hard to beat. With no signs, apart from a warning that you are entering a [...]

By Jon Clarke and Wendy Williams ONE of Spain’s last unspoilt stetches of coastline has been saved from two huge megaprojects. Environmentalists on the Costa de la Luz are overjoyed that both schemes – a 200m euro port expansion for Tarifa and a golf development in Vejer – have been turned down by the Junta. [...]

A DESPERATE battle is being waged in the high court to stop a developer from building a macroproject next to the Trafalgar lighthouse. Environmentalists insist that the plans to build the huge hotel complex next to one of Spain’s last virgin beaches on the Costa de la Luz have been passed illegally. They claim that [...]

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PLANS to develop the stretch of virgin coastline around El Palmar have come a step closer after it was announced that the area will become officially ‘urbanised’ this month. Vejer town hall has approved the installation of basic infrastructure and services for the small, low-rise hamlet on the Costa de la Luz. It lays the [...]

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.