Bulldozers move in to demolish coastal properties in Cantabria, Spain

Bulldozers move in to demolish coastal properties in Cantabria, Spain
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By h.b. - Apr 30, 2009 - 7:27 AM

Concerned residents in La Arena de Arnuero - EFE

The original court orders against the properties concerned were issued 15 years ago

Work has started to demolish homes which were constructed illegally on the coast of Cantabria.

The first court sentences ordering demolition were issued as long as 15 years ago, declared to be illegal under the ley de costas (coastal law), but it was on Wednesday when the bulldozers finally moved in at two different locations.

The most important one is the El Encinar Urbanisation on the beach at La Arena de Arnuero, where 144 homes were built on protected rural woodland, 42 of which are now coming down, all of them corresponding to the second phase of the urbanization.

Some twenty owners and locals protested as the bulldozers moved in, carrying placards which read ‘144 families, victims of the construction mafia’.

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