Junta de Andalucía counts 4,462 illegal properties in the region

Junta de Andalucía counts 4,462 illegal properties in the region
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By h.b. - Mar 23, 2009 - 8:13 AM
The number is described however as the 'tip of the iceberg' as the count is ongoing

The inspectors from the Housing and Territorial Planning Department of the Junta de Andalucía are reported to have 4,462 illegally built properties recorded to have been constructed on rural land, but the number is being described as the tip of the iceberg as the count continues.

Most of the irregularities are in the provinces of Almería, 2,192 and Málaga, 1,113 all of which are in seven villages of the Axarquía, and as many as 54 municipalities have now asked the Junta to revise their urban plans.

The census of illegal constructions in the region remains in its first stages however. Under the inspection plan, designed to continue until 2012, the regional housing department intends to collaborate with local Town Halls to control and stop the illegal building. Seven areas are considered to see the most serious irregularities – Valle de Almanzora, Freilas, Medina Azahara, La Axarquía, Sierra de Aracena and Sierra de Cazorla.

In the second line of irregularities are Chiclana, Tarifa, Algeciras and La Línea in Cádiz province, Ayamonte in Huelva, Atarfe and Maracena in Granada, Estepona, Mijas, Benalmádena and Alhaurín el Grande in Málaga and Pilas, Guillena and Arahal in Sevilla.

The census will first establish the number of illegal constructions, and include data such as location, promoter, and whether some sort of licence was granted, whether it is inhabited and whether there is already some form of judicial procedure against it.

After the census is completed then the future strategies will be defined. It’s thought that many of the properties will be brought into legality, but in some cases that will not be possible and demolition will be ordered. That will happen where the building is on environmentally protected land, in a river bed, or on land already assigned for some public infrastructure.

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