The Regional High Court (TSJA) has given Almuñécar Town Hall just two years to begin the demolition of the Hotel Bahía Tropical in Taramay.

This judicial decision came about after it rejected the appeals made by the Town Hall and the hotel itself; their last-ditch attempt to halt the demolition after 20 years of court process.

We’re not talking about the whole hotel, but the parts of it that were built illegally, resulting in it blocking the view of a house behind it. Nevertheless, it won’t come cheap as the court sentence also obligates the Town Hall include the costs in the yearly budget.

The affected house owner had sued the Town Hall for issuing a building licence (under Benavides) and then ratified under a socialist administration (Rebollo).

The Town Hall tried to protect this overbuild by including it in the projected PGOU that has yet to be approved, which is why the TSJA rejected it – the PGOU does not exist and the overbuild does.

The only thing that can save the hotel is if the PGOU is approved within the next two years that the High Court has given the Town Hall.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)