Friday, January 07, 2005
From Valencia Life Magazine
ANOTHER SAD CASEAnother terrible case of land abuse has recently come to light concerning a couple who decided to retire to Rocamura, where they bought a 550-tree orange grove and three houses. During three years, the couple lived in a stress-free environment, perfect for their health as livingand working in England had brought on at least two strokes. By accident in November of last year, they overheard plans for a town meeting, which they attended, and to their astonishment heard that their area was up for urbanisation based on the fact that the majority of landowners were in favour of the project. However, a little questioning quickly revealed that no one had been asked any questions whatsoever about any possible building project. Later research also revealed that the local Town Hall had no plans for the urbanisation, had not presented in the official publications of either Alicante or Valencia, and that no environmental studies had been carried out. Notwithstanding all this, the property owners are now being threatened with huge bills to pay for their part of the infrastructure for an urbanisation that no one wants or in fact really knows anything about. Commenting on this, AUN President Charles Svoboda stated that it was a fairly typical case of the land abuses committed in the Valencian Community under the LRAU, but added that he expected things to 'come to a head soon' with regard to action possibly being taken by the European Union over these abuses.
ANOTHER SAD CASEAnother terrible case of land abuse has recently come to light concerning a couple who decided to retire to Rocamura, where they bought a 550-tree orange grove and three houses. During three years, the couple lived in a stress-free environment, perfect for their health as livingand working in England had brought on at least two strokes. By accident in November of last year, they overheard plans for a town meeting, which they attended, and to their astonishment heard that their area was up for urbanisation based on the fact that the majority of landowners were in favour of the project. However, a little questioning quickly revealed that no one had been asked any questions whatsoever about any possible building project. Later research also revealed that the local Town Hall had no plans for the urbanisation, had not presented in the official publications of either Alicante or Valencia, and that no environmental studies had been carried out. Notwithstanding all this, the property owners are now being threatened with huge bills to pay for their part of the infrastructure for an urbanisation that no one wants or in fact really knows anything about. Commenting on this, AUN President Charles Svoboda stated that it was a fairly typical case of the land abuses committed in the Valencian Community under the LRAU, but added that he expected things to 'come to a head soon' with regard to action possibly being taken by the European Union over these abuses.
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