Fear over Spain’s fast-track demolition

Owners of homes which are retrospectively judged to have fallen foul of regional planning rules can now be given just one month’s notice that council bulldozers are being sent in, as part of a crackdown on excessive development in one of Spain’s most popular regions.

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MEP presses Zapatero on demolition of coastal houses in Spain

UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen today held Spanish President Jose Luis Zapatero to account over the scandal of British citizens who found their Spanish holiday homes demolished because of alleged breaches of planning law.
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