Zurgena will compensate buyers of illegal homes
The council has proposed to undertake payments over more than a decade
British citizens, mostly septuagenarians, who were legally recognised in 2017 in Court for the right to be compensated by the Town Council of Zurgena (AlmerÃa) after they had bought houses, built with illegal licenses in good faith, cannot begin receiving compensation until late 2020 and, in addition, they must wait up to 12 years to recover all their money.
Comply with the sentence
This proposal to comply with the sentence that condemned them to pay 649,292.61 euros is in quarterly amounts of 12,740.69 euros with payments "coinciding with the income that is made to the town hall in order to avoid tensions in the Municipal Treasury".
Without detailing how much of those 12,740.69 euros would correspond to each of those affected, the council proposal would mean that the total would would be paid over a duration of almost 13 years, which isn't good bearing in mind the advanced age of these British citizens.
The Provincial Court indicated direct civil responsibility to the municipal technician to be "evident that there is an unbroken causal link between the issuance of the report and the property damage suffered by the buyers" but also declared Zurgena council a responsible civil subsidiary because, according to reports, the defendant "worked for them as a technical adviser in urban matters."
As a result, the Provincial Court recognised the right of those harmed by the acquisition of these homes promoted by the New Medina Villas SL in the framework of a residential zone of 94 buildings in the Los Cabreras area to be compensated with individual amounts that ranges from 59,999.96 euros to 103,988 euros.
