Licence for Hotel Algarrobico declared null and void
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By h.b. - Sep 6, 2008 - 6:24 PM
A judge in Almería has agreed with some environmentalists, including Greenpeace, in declaring the partially completed hotel to be illegal.

There has been a judicial set back for those who want to see the survival of the partially completed Hotel Algarrobico on the edge of the Cabo de Gata Nature Park.

The judge in Administrative Court Two in Almería, Jesús Rivera, has ruled that the Junta de Andalucía and the Socialist controlled Carboneras Ayuntamiento both ignored the Coastal Law and the plan for the Cabo de Gata Nature Park, in allowing the hotel, 20 metres tall and just 28 metres from the shore, to be built and to insist for years that it was legal. He declared the licence for the hotel to be null and void and called on the prosecutor to investigate who is responsible at both a local and regional level, considering a crime and perversion of the course of justice has been committed.

Meanwhile the promoter of the hotel, Azata del Sol, has meanwhile demanded 100 million € from the administration for the planned expropriation of the hotel so that it can now be demolished.

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