Contact: info@almanzora-au.org
or press@soha.es
Maura
Hillen: 661329919 or Mario Balncke 687964097
Responding to today's
announcement of the initiation of a parliamentary bill to amend the Planning
Laws of Andalusia (LOUA) to deal with illegal land divisions, thus allowing
more houses to be regularized .......
SOHA and
AUAN are pleased with the agreement reached between PSOE and IU in relation to
this initiative.
But at the
same time we are impatient for this change to be made law as soon as possible.
The members
of AUAN and SOHA are the victims, not the authors, of planning crimes. They
have suffered years of legal uncertainty and stress as a consequence of their
decision to live in Spain and to buy a house in good faith.
We need to
see the text but as we understand it the proposed change permits the
regularisation, not the legalisation, of houses that meet all of the criteria
established in the Regularisation Decree of 2012, except for the fact that the
houses share the same parcel of non urbanizable land. It is not an amnesty.
In an ideal
world the guilty would already have been punished and the victims would already
have been compensated.
But we do
not live in an ideal world and we are obliged to compromise.
We hope
that with dialogue and common sense this bill will progress as quickly as
possible.
The demolition
of all the irregular houses would be economic suicide for Andalucía and for
Spain.
