Main opposition party pledges to help expat homeowners
Costa Almeria News, 02 | 12 | 2010 - Noticia
Meeting between AUAN and Partido Popular sees party leader promise wide sweeping planning reforms
The head of Andalucía’s main opposition party has pledged to introduce sweeping changes to planning laws in a bid to solve Almería’s illegal building crisis should he win the next regional elections in 2012.
Javier Arenas, the regional president of the right-wing Partido Popular (PP) party, made the announcement during a meeting with expat anti-planning abuse group, AUAN, in Almería city last week.
Sr Arenas said he would amend the controversial POTA and LOUA planning laws which he blamed for the impasse in the illegal building crisis affecting some 5,000 properties in Almería province alone and - according to the Junta’s own estimates - some 300,000 throughout the region.
He denounced the “legislative diarrhoea” of the Junta and the raft of 91 planning regulations for the crisis, claiming it had made it virtually impossible for councils to draw up town plans (PGOU).