I'm a buyer of Los patios and I'm going to try to resume what i know on the legal situation of Macenas resort:
First the legality of the resort is never been questioned but Macenas beach is been an almost virgin space so "Salvemos Mojacar " a local organization has always tried to stopped.
1) First before even the construction started they said it was illegal to build anything in there, but they couldn't succeed cause that land was not protected so it could be build in (unlike most of cabo de gata land which is totally protected and cannot be builded )
2) Then they brought to court the legal distance from the water to the hotel (only the hotel) but by the time medgroup started the construction it was timet after a new distance was imposed by law so they already builded with that distance in mind, but just to be sure they moved the hotel construction some meters back to avoid any problem . The resort is respecting the legal distance(public domain) following the new law. Nothing to do with the problem of Algarrobico hotel which is in fact to close to the beach not respecting the legal distance.
3) Then salvemos mojacar foundation placed a demand trying to stop the hotel construction "this time they said" cause it was constructed on the middle of a "rambla" (where the rain water from the mountain suppose to run thru,)......
All the demands have been rejected, dismissed so far. The last one #3 had a resolution (also rejected) 2 Mars 2009 by judge Tomas Cobo (sentence appeared in various local newspapers ). Medgroup stopped the hotel construction only because of the crisis situation and they did it way before the judge resolution ( he authorized to keep on with construction) You can google all this info. like I said in this forum before I'm spanish and i've been following this matters, I will not purchased something illegal. I always felt that this is not a typical damaging construction (unfortunately to many in spain) I thought is been done with a respect for the entourage that's why I liked.
Is fair to say that Greenpeace organization is never been involved "in actions" with macenas ( I'm a member) , only salvemos mojacar (a local organization) is been placing the demands ( i believe they do what they think they should do) but i don't like the fact that they lied in their web saying that "the resort will have 2 hotels 2 golf courses and thousands of apartments.." which is not true, not at all the spirit of the place.
Best wishes to all, Begonia