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Advances made in process to legalise properties in Chiclana
The owners of properties seen as illegal in Chiclana are reported to have now agreed to pay the cost of basic services for their properties, such as tarmacking, sewerage, street lighting and water supply, to allow their homes to be brought into legality, under local ordinances set out by the Town Hall. The owners had up until now been against such an agreement, but it’s understood from El País that the Town Hall, governed in coalition by PSOE, Izquierda Unida, and the PSA, will allow the owners to pay in instalments.
The 15,007 illegal properties in Chiclana cover an area of 18 million square metres, and the Town Hall estimates the cost of supplying them with basic services at some 75 million € . The work which must be carried out for sewerage and water supply alone is put at between 6,000 and 12,000 € for each illegal property.
El País notes that the exact division of the payment plan has yet to be finalised, but gives the Town Hall’s proposal as three instalments: 60% of the cost in advance, 25% before the work starts, and the remainder when the work has been completed. The news reported this Wednesday follows a protest held by thousands of the owners affected, marching through the streets of Chiclana last month, to demand that the Junta de Andalucía and the Town Hall should pay a large part of the cost.
In neighbouring Málaga province, the President of the Diputación provincial government, Salvador Pendón, was speaking on Tuesday of the problem of illegal building in the Axarquía district, in the east of the province, where more than 10,000 properties have been built illegally. He said the problem can only be properly addressed once the Town Halls affected have passed their new PGOU local development plans and will then be able to study each case one by one to find a means of bringing many of the properties into legality.
The 15,007 illegal properties in Chiclana cover an area of 18 million square metres, and the Town Hall estimates the cost of supplying them with basic services at some 75 million € . The work which must be carried out for sewerage and water supply alone is put at between 6,000 and 12,000 € for each illegal property.
El País notes that the exact division of the payment plan has yet to be finalised, but gives the Town Hall’s proposal as three instalments: 60% of the cost in advance, 25% before the work starts, and the remainder when the work has been completed. The news reported this Wednesday follows a protest held by thousands of the owners affected, marching through the streets of Chiclana last month, to demand that the Junta de Andalucía and the Town Hall should pay a large part of the cost.
In neighbouring Málaga province, the President of the Diputación provincial government, Salvador Pendón, was speaking on Tuesday of the problem of illegal building in the Axarquía district, in the east of the province, where more than 10,000 properties have been built illegally. He said the problem can only be properly addressed once the Town Halls affected have passed their new PGOU local development plans and will then be able to study each case one by one to find a means of bringing many of the properties into legality.
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