7 Dec, 2017 @ 12:35
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Popular Marbella chiringuito owner fined €10,000 for ‘illegal extension’

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A MARBELLA chiringuito owner has been fined €10,000 for ‘illegally extending’ his beach bar. 

The owner of a Llevante Beach Club must pay €5,400 to the town hall after he knocked down and rebuilt his popular eatery on a licence that only allowed for ‘minor renovation works’.

He must pay a further €4,320 penalty for breaking the law.

A Malaga court blasted the works for building on protected land.

The owner asked for permission to extend the property in 2006, and was given the green light in 2008.

But the works, which began in late 2009, saw the bar be totally knocked down and rebuilt, exceeding the limits of the licence.

The new build also exceeded the maximum occupation allowed by Costa del Sol planning laws.

Authorities repeatedly called for the works to stop, but the owner refused to comply.

The court has sentenced the boss to a year-and-a-half prison sentence.

 

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.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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