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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

By Jon Clarke THE opposition party has joined demands for action over the Western Beach sewage problem, which it fears is getting worse. The GSLP/Liberal party insists a hotel development in La Linea could cause further pollution on the beach, which has already been indefinitely shut due to health issues. It insists that the sewage [...]

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 [...]

THE EU has stepped in to investigate a controversial plan that would see one of Andalucía’s last virgin beaches destroyed by urban speculation. By Wendy Williams The European Commission is investigating whether to oppose the scheme to build a twin hotel complex at El Palmar, near Vejer de la Frontera. Over 50,000 signatures have so [...]

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.

DEVELOPERS behind Ronda’s controversial Los Merinos golf course have lost a six-million euro libel battle. The bosses behind the double golf course scheme took online magazine el Observador to court over a series of articles on the case over the last few years. Company JM Legion Espanola claimed that the environmental website and its owner [...]