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Spanish Water Crisis About to Become a War? | 35 comments (35 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Maybe Spain is the only country where planning permission is given by local authorities in violation of applicable planning law in exchange for bribes, but that's what's happened. The problem is not a retroactive change in law but a decision to enforce the law, which was being violated left and right by local governments and property developers.

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

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 09:55:51 AM EST
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Well, I was reading just this weekend about a couple whose house was built in 1970 is under threat of demolition under a law passed in 1995.

Nothing to do with bribery.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 10:51:05 AM EST
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Link?

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

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 11:57:09 AM EST
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Are you talking about this?

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

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 12:10:41 PM EST
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Yup

"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,"

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 01:23:45 PM EST
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There was a pre-existing Coastal Law from 1968, too.

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

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 01:33:00 PM EST
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Veinte mil afectados por la Ley de Costas acusan al Gobierno de manipular las playas - Expansión.com		Twenty thousand people affected
Ignorancia Una de sus fundadores es Carmen del Amo, actual coordinadora de la plataforma. Hace tres años, Carmen compró una vivienda en la costa levantina sin saber que formaba parte del dominio público, es decir, que el Estado ya había decidido expropiarla por haberse construido encima de una duna o una playa. "Me enteré que lo que había comprado no era mío por unos vecinos, porque el Gobierno jamás comunicó una palabra a nadie".		Ignorance One of the founders [of the National Platform of Victims of the Coastal Law] is Carmen del Amo, current coordinator of the Platform. Three years ago, Carmen bought a home on the Mediterranean Coast without knowing it was int he public domain, that is, the State had already decided to expropriate it for having been built on a dune or beach. "I found out through the neighbours that what I had bought wasn't mine, because the Government never said a word to anyone".
En la misma línea se manifestó, Clifford Carter, que sufrió la expropiación de su casa en el Saler, en Valencia: "Se limitaron a publicar un anuncio en el BOE, un documento que casi nadie consulta, y menos los extranjeros".		Clifford Carter expressed himself along the same lines. He suffered the expropriation of his home in Saler, Valencia: "they limited themselves to publish a notice in the Official Journal, a document that almost nobody consults, and least of all foreigners".
La PNALC estima que entre un 15% y un 20% de los afectados por la aplicación de la Ley de Costas son ciudadanos no españoles, en especial jubilados del norte de Europa. "Los ciudadanos foráneos ya no se fían de la seguridad jurídica española y están dejando de invertir en el mercado residencial", sentencia el portavoz de la plataforma.		The PNALC estimates that between 15% and 20% of those affected by the application of the Coastal Law are foreign citizens, especially retirees from Northern Europe. "Foreign citizens don't trust Spain's legal security and are stopping to invest in the residential market", said the speaker for the Platform.

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

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 01:29:43 PM EST
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