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much debate and talk, the Marbella town hall has approved the final
draft of a new town-plan (PGOU), which now gets passed onto the
regional government in Seville for final approval.
The
existing plan that was approved in 1986 will be updated for the
first time in 23 years, thus putting an end to the succession of
corrupt mayors who have abused the PGOU plan, resulting in 18,000
illegal properties in Marbella.
The
new plan legalises 16,500 properties in return for compensating
the town hall with land and payments to restore public spaces that
were lost to private developments. Under the latest draft developers
are the only ones on the hook, after Ángeles Muñoz,
Marbella’s Mayor, fought to ensure that innocent third party
buyers will not be liable for any compensation payments.
The new PGOU has been spoken about in absolute depth with little
go forward due to the Marbella mayor seeking planning amnesty to
an additional 500 illegal, occupied, properties that the government
in Seville want to be demolished. Despite the mayors best intentions,
the final approved draft does not included these illegal properties,
which will now be passed on to the courts, and all the unfortunate
owners of properties in the Banana Beach and Rio Real developments
will have to continue their wait for the final outcome. In theory
these properties will have to be demolished, along with 1,000 other
properties that were built but never sold, as the new plan does
not provide for any other solution.
The
regional government in Seville is expected to nod through the new
plan, which will them come into force. Marbella’s first town
plan since 1986 can only be good news for the local property market
and will put an end to more than a decade of town planning chaos
that has weighed heavily on the local property market.
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