30,000 illegal homes in Málaga, only 16 demolitions

MÁLAGA – It has been calculated that there some 30,000 illegal homes built in the province. Many of them are on ‘non-buildable’ or ‘rústico’ land, or on river flood courses, and the sides and tops of mountains … Yet only a tiny proportion of them have been demolished, which is what the law mandates (restitution to its original state). This permissiveness is owed principally to the fact that there is no politician willing to assume the electoral costs of an unpopular measure. That, and the sluggish speed of justice in Spain. Of course, it’s Nature that loses out, as usual. The provincial Prosecutor//calculates that there were at least 16 demolitions 2013 as the result of having been built on non-buildable land and therefore considered as an offence against ‘territorial ordination’. This is more than can be said for previous years.

‘Regularization’ of 300,000 homes in Andalucía is a ‘scandal of incalculable consequences’

Marbella

SEVILLE – A new decree on the legalisation of otherwise illegal homes in Andalucía has been called a ‘guarantee of savage urbanism’ by the environmental pressure group Ecologistas en Acción (Environmentalists in Action). These homes were built on what was officially classified as ‘non-buildable land’ (SNU, Suelo No Urbanizable), and the new decree is ‘a fiasco that will have serious legal, territorial, environmental, social and economic consequences [that attempt against] the general interest of the citizenry’, according to the NGO. When the Junta de Andalucía asked SNU for it opinion on the proposed decree, Ecologistas en Acción sent in their own proposals which would eliminate the principal attraction to building on agricultural land, which would be extremely profitable to developers. The Junta never replied nor consulted them again. Below we have summarised the main arguments presented by the SNU.

Coalition negotiates pact on illegal homes

This will happen to some houses

SEVILLA – Sources in the Government of Andalucía say that, if two vital items in the region’s 2015 budget are settled (See this week’s article Health and Education to be saved from Budget cuts) and ‘minor issues’ are sorted, both parties (PSOE AND IU) agree that new legislation is needed to ‘legalise’ between 20,000 and 25,000 homes or houses that were built ‘illegally’ during the construction boom, and bought in good faith, most often by foreigners, at least in Andalucía. This subject is supposedly ‘close to the heart’ of Junta President Susana Díaz, which is not necessarily a guarantee of its coming to fruition. More on ‘Regularisation of Illegal Property’ by Rafael Berdaguer Abogados:

Coalition negotiates pact on illegal homes

This will happen to some

SEVILLA – Sources in the Government of Andalucía say that, if two vital items in the region’s 2015 budget are settled (See this week’s article Health and Education to be saved from Budget cuts) and ‘minor issues’ are sorted, both parties (PSOE AND IU) agree that new legislation is needed to ‘legalise’ between 20,000 and 25,000 homes or houses that were built ‘illegally’ during the construction boom, and bought in good faith, most often by foreigners, at least in Andalucía. This subject is supposedly ‘close to the heart’ of Junta President Susana Díaz, which is not necessarily a guarantee of its coming to fruition. More on ‘Regularisation of Illegal Property’ by Rafael Berdaguer Abogados:

Junta de Andalucía coalition is still negotiating pact on illegal homes

Illegal homes in Chiclana (Cádiz)
(elperiodistadigital.com)

SEVILLA – Sources in the Government of Andalucía say that, if two vital items in the region’s 2015 budget are settled (See this week’s article Health and Education to be saved from Budget cuts)and ‘minor issues’ are sorted, both parties (PSOE AND IU) agree that new legislation is needed to ‘legalise’ between 20,000 and 25,000 homes or houses that were built ‘illegally’ during the construction boom, and bought in good faith, most often by foreigners, at least in Andalucía. This subject is supposedly ‘close to the heart’ of Junta President Susana Díaz, which is not necessarily a guarantee of its coming to fruition (they've been at it for a while now...). More on ‘Regularisation of Illegal Property’ by Rafael Berdaguer Abogados (written and published last year -- they're still negotiating!)