Symbol of The destruction of the coast, the Hotel de la Playa de El Algarrobico (Carboneras, Almería) is one of the largest urban scandals in the coast. The different administrations involved and, especially the City Council of Carboneras and the Junta de Andalucía, have allowed this monstrous hotel, with 21 floors and 411 rooms to be built on one of the few unprepared spaces of the Western Mediterranean coast: the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park.
Although one Judgment of the Supreme Court of February 2016, confirmed that the hotel in El Algarrobica new judgment of this same court said in the late 2022 that the land is urbanizable because the City of Carboneras has not fulfilled the sentence that forces him to modify his PGOU.
He Algarrobico is illegal because it is located within the Cabo de Gata Natural Park, In non -urbanizable land and because, to top it off, it has been built just 14 meters from the riverbank of the sea, which breaches the law of coasts.
Although there are more than 20 judicial pronouncements that demonstrate their illegality, responsible administrations remain passive and do not fulfill their promises. With the political will and real interest of the administrations involved, the demolition of the Algarrobico Hotel can be carried out at any time. The demolition and the subsequent restoration of the environment will create around 400 jobs according to experts.
The Algarrobico Monument to Political Management of Urban Planning
Greenpeace warns that the City Council of Carboneras still does not comply with the sentence that forces it to declare as non -urbanizable the soils of the Hotel de El Algarrobico.
The City Council of Carboneras (Almería) has sent two technical documents that modify a typographic error that appeared in the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) in which the classification of the landscape land of the Rangin is corrected. This correction made by the City Council has been carried out, in fact, after the request sent to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia by the organization Ecologist in November 2024.
The Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia ruled 9 years ago a sentence that forces the City of Carboneras to Declare the land where the Algarrobico Hotel is built as non -urbanizable and that the Consistory has breached throughout this time creating a blocking situation for the effective demolition of the hotel.
Reason that led to environmentalists to request, up to twice, to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia that the mayor of Carboneras, currently Salvador Hernández, It was warned with a fine of 700 euros every 20 days until the total compliance of Judgment No. 2000/2016 is produced, which classifies the place of El Algarrobico as non -urbanizable in the General Plan for Urban Planning of Carboneras (PGOU).
However, The sending of technical reports does not imply an effective modification of the PGOU, since all the necessary procedures must be given, including its publication in the Official Gazette of the Province and the sending of said modification to the Andalusian Board for its subsequent registration.
Therefore, The sentence remains breached and are demonstrated again, the dilatory movements that the City Council of Carboneras has been carrying out to avoid compliance with it.
“As much as the City Council of Carboneras and the Junta de Andalucía launch the bells on the fly with this action, The sentence is still not fulfilled since the classification of the land has not been modified. If the Board wants to accelerate the process, you must study as soon as possible the way of forced expropriation, as the State has already started, ”said Luis Berraquero, responsible for the NGO in Andalusia.