# Environmental approval advances for 499-bed hotel in Georgioupoli, Crete

> Crete's regional authority issued a positive opinion on the environmental study for a new 303-room, 499-bed five-star complex in Georgioupoli.

- **Section:** New hotels
- **Published:** 2026-09-24
- **Publisher:** Voyage (https://thevoyage.gr)
- **Type:** our own summary of someone else’s reporting
- **Source:** Tornos News — https://tornosnews.gr/featured/nea-thetiki-exelixi-gia-tin-adeiodotiki-diadikasia-5asteroy-xenodocheioy-499-kli.html

Crete's Environment and Spatial Planning Committee has issued a positive opinion on the Environmental Impact Study for a planned five-star hotel complex by ANAX HOTEL SINGLE-MEMBER IKE, at Asprouliano near Georgioupoli, in the Municipality of Apokoronas, Chania. The unit is planned within a Natura 2000 network area, with the approval accompanied by conditions set by the Environment Department of the Regional Unit of Chania.

The project will be developed on a 63,939.02 sq.m. plot at the Tzougari site, outside the Asprouliano settlement, and will include 303 rooms with a total capacity of 499 beds, arranged in single, two-storey and three-storey sections following the site's elevation contours. Plans include a main pool of 694.17 sq.m. in three sections, three separate pools totaling 472.64 sq.m., and private or shared pools for many rooms, with total water surface reaching 2,864 sq.m. and planted areas of 15,805 sq.m.

Total construction is calculated at 12,698.21 sq.m., against a permitted 12,787.80 sq.m. Water consumption is estimated at 332.4 cubic meters daily, with the Apokoronas water utility confirming capacity to supply up to 400 cubic meters. Irrigation will rely on treated wastewater from an autonomous treatment facility until connection to Georgioupoli's under-construction sewage network. The department also requested preservation of two oak trees, estimated at 70-100 years old, found on the plot.

One issue raised concerns the placement of parts of the complex relative to the zoning of Georgioupoli's Land Use Plan, with the Environment Department requesting a revised site coverage plan to confine hotel activity to zones permitting residential and tourist facilities.

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