lee8

Sorry Brit Expats, i forgot were not the only ones.

lcortez

It can happen and does happen in UK!Illegally built properties can be demolished everywhere,it may appear to be mainly Brits because they are probably the majority of people you know or hear of,(can you read ,speak or understand Dutch,or German etc),it may not happen in the UK as much with peoples main homes, as most of the areas people may want to build on are already built up!I personally have seen and heard of a lot of reports that DONT involve Brits!
No one nationality is being victimised here

Econ

If your property has planning permission from the town hall in the UK it cannot not be demolished like this unless you have disregarded the planning permission!

lcortez

The post was re illegally built properties, hence the use of the word illegal!
And legally built proerties can be demolished,it's called compulsary purchase!

1 Clearance of unfit housing - Housing Act 1985.
2 Bringing empty properties back into use - Housing Act 1985.
3 Development or Regeneration - Town & Country Planning Act 1990.
4 Local road schemes - Highways Act 1980.

Econ

What has this to do with compulsory purchase?

I think Ill take the rest of the day off school.

FYI, the post is about: House Demolished not illegally built properties as you try to state.

PS. Sorry I'm not telepathic, can't read things before you change them, haven't learnt that yet.

lcortez

A lot as you stated that legally built properties CANNOT be demolished in the UK,the fact is they can,have posted the acts which allow this to take place in my edited post above.
Maybe you should take the rest of the day off!

Jorgi

As I stated in another forum my mothers house was "compulsory purchased". The site is now part of a Tesco carpark. She got site value only. £60 in those days. The saving grace is that she was rehoused in a newtown house albeit 30 miles away which left her with a daily commute of that distance. So,as you say, its not only in Spain.

lcortez

Gld to hear she was re-housed,unfortunatly in Spain at persent there appears to be limited compensation,hopefully the current legal challenge will addresse this

jackytoo

I don't think a house would have been allowed to actually finished and sold to an unsuspecting buyer in the UK. the developer would have been stopped before then. The UK does not have such a system as Spain it couldn't happen. As for compulsory purchase this seems to be about 3000 euros in the campo!

I do agree with Lee re. crime etc. in Spain. Many think its not so bad because they do not read spanish or watch spanish TV. Except for the language you would not know the difference between the UK and Spanish news.

I don't think the people have been re-housed? They were given a flat for the weekend.

lcortez

Agreed,an actual house probably wouldnt be allowed to be finished in th UK,hence my statement,"main house".
Crime rate is approx same in Spain as Uk.
Ref to being re-housed was for the poster who stated is mothers house had been CP'd,and she was re-housed.
A lot if these properties(althiough not all) where built some time ago when enforcment was a lot more lax in Spain

Mitzyboy

You got stats to prove that?
If so, its very worrying, bearing in mind more or less that the UK land mass is half of Spain, but Spains official population is 20 million less, albeit probably more clumped together

As regards the OP, this was about a legal home approved by the town hall .... not one of the illegally built ones. Are you aware then of non brits having their houses ripped apart under these same circumstances?

lcortez

Do have stats to prove it,posted them last year on another thread,will try to find them.
Re legal house demolished.I assume you mean under the loophole in the LUV law thats being exploited,yes there are a lot of people affected by exploitation of this loophole,and not all are British,this law was not specifically put on the statute books to target Brits,if the government wanted Brits out there are a wide range of measures that could be taken,this is not a case of Johny Foreigner picking on Brits!

jandy44

Reading the "Daily Mail" today at least four more British couples face their villa's bulldozed after officials said that the property's are illegal.It was said yesterday by officials that ten villa's in the area were going to be demolished,at least four belonging to the British,others are German,Swedish and Spanish owned.


FULL STORY HERE

lcortez

An absoloutly terrible story.surprised to read (again) a lawyer saying everything would be ok

Nige

VERA area is not far from the beautiful Cabo de Gato coastline which is a Natural park. Within this area on the Vera side of the park a massive hotel was built on a beach called El Algarrobico. The local mayor at the nearby town of Carboneras wanted the hotel built and had given the go ahead. It would give employment and opportunities for the people nearby who could scooter to work. The Junta had been involved with the planning stages and all was set to get on with the build. A lot of money, millions of Euros, has now been spent but the innards are unfinished. The entire edifice can be seen from the coast road and as it is painted white, it is difficult to ignore. The local defenders of the natural park denounced it and managed to get the support of Greenpeace (for goodness sake why Greenpeace !) and sure enough it was declared illegal by the Junta of Andalucia as it was built in the wrong zone. Manuel Chaves apparently said it would be dynamited to the ground. Blown up. presumably following the flavour of the PSOE month at the time and ever watchful of Madrid Centre and the spectre of the puppet master pulling the environmental strings.
Well according to a report in the news letter of the Cabo de Gato Ecologists, the Junta has re zoned the area and the hotel is reprieved. So a redrawing of the maps has made the entire story a happy one for the developers but not for the Ecologists.
if the hotel had been dynamited then one would imagine that the Junta would need to find many millions of Euros to compensate the developers. or so they say. So in this case the Juntas JCB and Ball & chain was not needed. And the dynamite is stored safely for another day.
The Ecologists have kindly provided the new zoning maps on this;
http://www.cabodegata.net/esultimasxa.html
I would propose that the Priors and all the others who see their villas demolished in this area, be rehoused and given a suite of rooms in this hotel in perpetuity. Naturally room service would be extra. let's hope the guy in the Junta who gave the order will be able to support this plan.