Imagine the scene. You’re putting the finishing touches to the Christmas tree when there’s a knock at the door and a Spanish police officer cheerfully hands you an envelope. But it isn’t a Christmas card, rather a demolition order for your beloved Spanish retirement home.
That’s what happened on December 22 to John and Muriel Burns, a retired couple living in Albox, a rural town in Almeria in south-east Spain. Two years earlier another retired couple, Len and Helen Prior, were the first British expats to witness their Spanish home demolished without warning and without having been invited to be part of the legal processes. The Spanish supreme court in Madrid has now ruled in their favour but they are yet to receive any compensation.
It’s easy to dismiss such stories with a cynical grunt and a cliché about expats just not doing their homework but in this case it’s simply not true. In the same area, another seven British families were served with similar demolition notices for properties bought in all good faith but which are now deemed by the Andalucía regional government to be illegal. How can this happen?
Costa Blanca Property News – LRAU, ('Land Grab Law')-Update ...
The fact that no action against the law, has been successful, (to our knowledge, to date), combined with the need for any action for remedy in a property dispute to have been brought before the Spanish courts within six-months of the loss to the land owner, calls into question whether the vast majority of people who have suffered financial loss due to the LRAU will ever see compensation. Its impact was soon felt by property owners in rural areas of the Costa Blanca, Costa Calida and Costa Azahar who found themselves in the position of having their land ‘confiscated’ in the ‘public interest’ and many also being billed for large amounts of money to pay for the cost of developing new infrastructure. Other areas of concern were finally highlighted by the European Parliament in December 2005. These included the bases on which the ‘Ubanistor’ or developer was selected; the lack of adequate procedures for the awarding of the public contract and the need for adequate procedures for the notification of land owners so that they were notified individually, effectively and in good time of any development proposals that may affect them, thus giving them adequate time to consider appropriate action. Get puzzled to complete an assignment of term paper? If you do, just come to Termpaper-blog.Com. This site has long experience in dealing with some troubles of Term Paper faced by most students. No doubt, you will be benefit by MBA and PhD writers of this site for a qualified result.
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