The Salobreña opposition party, El Partido Popular, says that it has just discovered that the Town Hall has to pay 400,000 euros to Salomar 2000.

The local, party leader, Sr. Gustavo Aybar, claims that he only found about this from residents in Salomar 2000 – the Town Hall has lost a court case over a compulsory-purchase order involving land belonging to this beachfront urbanización.

Where, he asks himself, does the Town Hall hope to get the funds for this. But let’s wind back to how this came about.

The Granada magistrate at the Juzgado de lo Contencioso Administrativo considered that the Town Hall’s decision not to accept the objections lodged against the Municipal Decree (Aug 2016) did not adhere to legality. The decree announced the annexation of land belonging to the Comunidad de Propietarios de Salomar 2000 through a compulsory purchase order.

In simpler terms, the court struck down the decree because the administration had not dealt with the objections to it in an entirely legal manner.

Salomar 2000 has since announced, “unless the Town Hall decides to appeal against the sentence and it prospers, the land that they tried to steal from us (1,071 sq/m) still belongs to the block community.”

Salomar 2000 had prior to this court decision had the said land valued by an official body (the Comisión Provincial de Valoraciones), which put the figure well above the amount calculated by the Town Hall (66,483 euro), standing at 383,079 euros, plus accumulated interests.

So, there you go! The Town Hall can’t give the land back, having demolished the tennis court on the land and turned it into part of the paseo, so unless it appeals against the sentence and wins, they are going to have to find the cash.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: infocostatropical)