Most places in the world, if you get official planning permission, you have permission. A local office cannot give permission to build on land it has no control over...period. In Spain, you get official planning permission, except if somebody notices that it conflicts with other central government policies. Then you lose your home without compensation, despite it not being your fault. Which is just a teeny bit unjust.
In fact, some areas, you have a house legally built, then they change the law a couple of decades later and retrospectively want to demolish the house for failing a planning law that hadn't been passed at the time of building.
that's why the spanish property market has crashed. Nothing to do with sub-prime or anything like that. All foreign buyers have got too scared of the mess that is spanish "planning" law and it's killed the demand. keep to the Fen Causeway
Nothing to do with bribery. keep to the Fen Causeway
"I don't disagree with the principle of clearing the clutter along the coasts. But our home was built in 1971 - 17 years before this law came in and it is unjust that we are effectively losing it,"
Right, so we have people who were swindled when buying property and people who claim nobody reads the Official Journal. It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris
