Junta de Andalucia to legalise homes
Junta de Andalucia president Jose Antonio Griñan announced on Sunday that the regional government will approve a decree on January 10th that would make it possible to regularise the legal position of some 300,000 properties built illegally in the past 20 years or so – at least 50,000 of them in Malaga province.
The Junta approved the Territorial Planning Law of Andalucia in 2003 which was specifically aimed at stopping illegal construction in the countryside and this complete U-turn has been received with scepticism throughout Malaga province, where many former mayors and council members have been jailed or face charges of handing out “irregular” building licences.
The most common observation is that the Junta is trying to avoid a crushing defeat in the regional election to be held on March 25th. However, groups and local politicians who have been trying to regularise illegal constructions welcomed the announcement but anticipated legal problems because, as they told the SUR newspaper, “in practice it’s an amnesty and what will happen now to those people who have been jailed or still face charges for allegedly selling licences to builders”?
Just over 12,760 illegal constructions have been identified in the Axarquia and it is estimated that there are 15,000 in the Guadalhorce valley, 3,000 each in Mijas and Estepona, 1,600 in the Serrania de Ronda, 1,500 around Antequera and 1,174 in Malaga city.
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