The Junta de Andalucía has identified, over the past four years, 80,422 properties built illegally in the region on non-buildable land. 22,196 of them have been constructed on land with special protection, and 44 of these have been demolished according to the Councillor for Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment, Luis Planas. The Junta’s inspections have only been carried out in the most problematic districts and they estimate the real number of illegally built properties constructed on non-building land across the region is at least 300,000. There was a debate held in the Sevilla parliament on Wednesday on a decree which will regulate the illegal buildings. Planas told the chamber that almost 80% of the properties would be allowed to stand and can be legalised, provided the owners are prepared to meet a series of demands to meet a decree which was passed last February. Any properties on specially protected land or in river beds cannot be legalised. Over recent years the Junta has applied special plans to certain problem areas, the Valle de Almanzora in Almería, La Janda in Cádiz, South of Córdoba, the Centre of Granada, the Sierra de Aracena in Huelva, the North of Jaén, the Axarquía in Málaga and the Lower Guadalquivir in Sevilla. As early as 2002 the Ombudsmen noted that there were 1,000 illegal urbanisations in Andalucía and warned of the ‘judicial insecurity’ facing hundreds of owners, as well as ‘the serious affect on the environment’. The Ombudsman criticised the Town Planning of the Junta de Andalucía, describing it as ‘deficient’, and now he says the decree on the illegal properties has ‘arrived very late’. Ex I.U. Mayor of Puente Genil in Córdoba, Manuel Baena, has noted the pressures which have been suffered by many local Town Halls from residents associations representing the illegal properties, and he complained about the lack of resources with which they had to deal with the problem.
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