Catral residents get little satisfaction from the Mayor

Catral residents get little satisfaction from the Mayor
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By h.b. - Dec 10, 2009 - 7:49 AM
A meeting was held after 150 residents marched to the Town Hall on Wednesday

One of the illegal villas in Catral - EFE archive

The Partido Popular Mayor of Catral, Aurelio Albero, came out to meet the protesting home owners in the town on Wednesday but told them that the charges being made for services and infrastructure for the illegally built properties would not be reduced by a single Euro.
Some 150 residents, many of them British, marched on the Catral Ayuntamiento (Alicante) on Wednesday, under the banner ‘victims of town planning corruption’, contending that they find themselves as victims having purchased their properties in good faith having been told that the builders had obtained all the correct licences. They blame both the local Town Hall and the regional Valencia Government as the developments continued after a 2002 report from Seprona, the environmental wing of the Guardia Civil.

The Mayor, Aurelio Albero, was joined at the doors of the Ayuntamiento by the Councillor for Town Planning, Antonio Bellido. The Mayor demanded an explanation from the protestors and contended that the Town Hall was also a victim from what had gone on as they had lost 80 million € in income.

Diario Información reports that the Mayor denied rumours that power and water supplies were to be cut to the properties, but insisted that all owners had to pay a tax of 1% of the value of the property ‘as do all citizens’. In addition the illegal homes will have a septic tank and a 10% fine of the cost of that will be imposed, although that should be met by the promoters of the illegal properties.

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