Costa del Sol
Mijas family decide to demolish their own illegal house
By h.b.
Apr 28, 2008 - 5:31 PM

A Mijas family has decided to demolish their home which was being built illegally in the municipality, claiming that there was no other solution to their problem. Dolores Quero told the La Opinion de Málaga newspaper that luckily they had only got as far as building the structure of the building, otherwise it would have been far worse.

Even though they had not been served with a demolition order the family were facing fines of 4,000 € a month over the past year, and took the decision to end the problem only after earlier turning to obtain more credit. The family is aware that they have not complied with the law, but say that ‘public administration have not helped them with their problems, the Town Hall, if they knew this would happen, should not have given them permission to build, claiming that the Councillor for Town Planning told them the only way to build was to ‘torear legality’ (take a risk).

They say they had met with the Mayor from when the problems started, after they were denounced for the structure by their neighbours, in an attempt to find a solution.
Even though now the house is gone, that does not mean that the fines for building it on rustic land will not continue.