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19/11/2008. Junta Identifies Areas of Illegal Building

The Junta de Andalucia has identified seven areas in the autonomous region where illegal building is considered a particular problem. Its inspectors will consider such factors as size of building, amount of land occupied and whether used for profit before making decisions about demolition. One of the places mentioned is the Axarquia in Malaga province, and the Junta has asked several ayuntamientos in the area to prepare an inventory of illegal buildings

About b****y time - beautiful area, now scattergun little bungalows hither & thither

But the damage is done
Do you think knocking them down will return the area to its previous beauty?

Now there's an interesting idea! Go after the owners/builders for the cost
of reparations - restoring the site(s) to the state they were in before the
building was done.
However, on a more practical note, generally people build houses, and then
communities, near to where existing houses are. If you remove the start-up
houses, you prevent surreptitious urbanisation in the future.

one way off kick starting the Real Estate / Property market going again .... kick you out then ask you to py for it , move and buy again

where the builder and \Property Development companys that made maillions off us , this are people that told us we got paper work and so , lie and tock are money from us . now i work hard to get where i am and due one Develop you been told to get out and start again , i am not cought out here but think off it some buy 2 bedroom apartment at 200,000 euros , there living theere 6 year and told to get out we going to knock it down , that rent off 33,000 a year . gold 5 star hotel cheaper

The illegal properties in Catral will soon be made legal but the owners have to pay a huge sum of fees. They say it will take as long as 18 mths for this to happen. Though those properties are illegal at the moment, you'll see that kyero still lists those properties.

It`s the same in Marbella, Banana beach, a block of over 200 apartments where the new train station was to be built are still being advertised for sale.
No way anybody could miss this heap being built, it would need a big pile of €`s to hide behind.

Isn't there a law in Spain where nobody should advertise for illegal properties?

After what is happening on the talk front, they will probably get away with saying it`s a grey area at the moment. HERE

They even have them up for holiday rental. HERE

This will seem a stupid question, but who defines illegality? EU? National Government? Provincial? Ayuntamiento? Does anyone actually know? If not, Junta de Andalucia will be wasting their & our time & money

Without a building licence, issued by a competent authority, in accordance with local planning rules - it's illegal.

And if the planning rules don't conform to what, for example, should be permitted in a Natural Park? The building licence would still have been issued by a competent authority..... I reckon there's going to be some cop-out in most of these cases.

There proberley is but this is Spain,I mean, you should not even build illegal properties either should you?Sadly corruption still rules here.

They have silly rules classifying iilegal properties. For example those in Catral, a lot of them are illegal because the plot size is not 10,000 sq meter minimum. It's such a stupid rule to expect a builder to build 1 property on a 10,000m 2 plot which is huge. I certainly don't want to live in a property on that plot size. You never see the neighbors & being that crime is increasing, you need neighbors helping each other to fight against crime.

They have these large plot sizes because the houses are being built on rustic (ie Green Belt) land.

If you don't want a large plot then you build on Urban land where 250m2 may well be adequate.