The surprising Regional-High-Court decision on the controversial hotel on Algarrobico beach in Almería has left nobody unmoved.

The High Court found that the hotel was erected on land that was legal for development.

Ecologist groups, who have been demanding the demolition of the monster construction on a virgin beach, are gobsmacked.

But it is not only the hotel itself that worries them, but the possible 250 dwellings and a golf course that could now follow it, completely destroying what hitherto protected natural park.

The land where the 451-room hotel on 20 floors stands comes under the Carboneras Town Hall and has been earmarked as the ST-2 urban development area.

The ecologist groups are willing to take this affair to the European courts if need be.

(News: Carboneras, Almeria, Andalucia)