30 Jan, 2007 @ 05:50
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Almuñecar luxury housing development stopped

Urban commission spots irregularities in the multi-million-euro project

Judges in Granada have stopped construction work on a luxury housing development in Almuñecar.


The decision was taken to temporarily suspend the licence for the 144-house estate in the Peñón del Lobo area of the town after the provincial urban commission detected a series of “defects” in the project.

Local environmental groups have long campaigned against the 70-million euro project. Ecologistas en Accion had filed an official complaint to the Supreme Court of Andalucía. The group had also compared the development to the controversial Algarrobico hotel complex in Almería, Spain. Built close to protected park land, the hotel is currently awaiting demolition.

With this ruling, the total number of homes in Almuñecar on which construction has been stopped by the courts now stands at 329 since 2005.

According to regional newspaper Ideal, the majority of the stop orders were given because of “irregular” land reclassifications.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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