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.
