25 Aug, 2016 @ 10:00
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Rise of illegal buildings in El Palmar getting ‘out of control’

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el palmar containerRESIDENTS in El Palmar are lambasting the town hall for failing to control a rise in illegal constructions.

The increase in low-cost tourism in the area has led to an influx of containers and shacks being built, with estimates putting the number of illegal dwellings at 1,000.

There is no running water or sewage facilities while power cuts are a regular occurrence.

Paco Rosado, president of the residents’ association, says the boom was triggered by the opening of a beach bar in 2000, which quickly turned El Palmar into a trendy, alternative destination.

The dwellings are built on land ceded to families who came to work there in 1931.

Local PP mayor José Ortiz admits that the town hall lacks the resources to deal with the crisis, which recently saw two policemen implicated.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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    • Stuart, and then they complain when the bulldozers move in. Same old story I’m afraid and until real hard draconian measure are taken by the Government or the authorities concerned by declaring that any property that the legal profession had been involved in by not getting proper building permission from the Junta’s involved will have all their assets taken coupled with a heavy prison sentence. Perhaps that may start to make people change. As for unscrupulous landowners that erect shacks, 48 hrs notice to remove before the bulldozers move in, no if’s or but’s, just like the farmer in the UK that spent £2 million in building a mock castle, demolished to rubble, built without permission. As you well know, Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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