Akamas to get another big hotel

THE GOVERNMENT has granted permission for another luxury hotel to be built in the Akamas, the Friends of the Akamas society said yesterday.

The environmental pressure group said a permit had been given to the Grecian Hotels company, allowing it to build a massive 264-bed hotel on the Asprokremos coast near the Anassa Hotel owned by Thanos Hotels.

The greens said the area is earmarked for a national park and that an environmental impact study should be carried out immediately. They also called on the government to explain how the licence had been given and to revoke it.

The Anassa went up amid a storm of controversy as Thanos Hotels belongs to former Foreign Minister Alecos Michaelides. The hotel exceeds building regulations for the area and permission for it to do so was given while Michaelides was Foreign Minister.

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