Leading on from last month’s article about the possible demolition of the Bahía hotel in Taramay, there comes more news. Not only was there a private law suit as mentioned in last month’s Seaside Gazette, but there was also one brought by the Junta de Andalucía and it turns out that it was a good job that the private case existed because the Junta cocked it up. The Junta lost its case against the hotel because it presented its’ appeal one day past the time limit to do so.
Recapping on last months article, Hotel Bahía opened its doors for the first time on Bastille Day (14th July) 2001. I thought I would just sneak in that Gallic side note to make up for the Freedom-Fries affair…They can be quite touchy the French, you know – for Gods’ sake don’t mention the war.
The private case was made almost one year before that date by a neighbour whose view had been obscured by the oversized building, against building restrictions in the area. In a short space of time this single case had grown to four; two by the said gentleman and his mother, and two by the Junta de Andalucía.
Well, as we reported, the viewless gentleman and his excellent mother had won their case on the 12th of February 2007 and the judge called for the demolition of the offensive bits of the hotel – a handful of floors that should not have been there. Both the hotel and the Town Hall appealed against this judicial decision before the Tribunal Superior de Justicía and then, lo and behold, last month the TSJA said, “Too right, Mate; pull the bastard down,” much to the dismay of the hotel and our noble champions of bureaucratic skulduggery in the Palace of Dithering Doom, otherwise know as the Town Hall.
Great symphonies of orchestrated farting cushions resounded far and wide until the deflating news came that the Junta, instead of cruising in with a second victory, had squeaked a rattling demise.
So there you have it; even though both the Junta and the viewless neighbour presented exactly the same arguments, the neighbour won his case and the Junta did not, because they were unable to extract their finger from an unsuitable orifice in time.