BENIDORM Metropolis Council should discover €330 million- over double its annual budget- after dropping a Supreme Court docket enchantment over a land compensation award.
The case revolved across the lack of constructing rights within the protected Serra Gelada Pure Park.
The massive award was made by the Valencian Supreme Court docket final Might to builders Murcia Puchades Growth SL and City City Villajoyosa 2000 SL.
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The council then appealed to the nationwide Supreme Court docket and lost- that means it has to search out €283 million plus curiosity.
The court docket additionally charged authorized prices of €2,000 and their ruling can’t be challenged.
Land within the APR-7 sector of the Serra Gelada had been labeled as city land appropriate for improvement again within the 1960’s.
The Murcia Puchades household had three plots totalling over two million sq. meters.
Their authorized motion began after Benidorm Metropolis Council voided city planning agreements first signed in 2003 between then-mayor, Vicente Perez Devesa and a number of other firms.
The agreements have been renewed twice in 2010 and 2013 by ex-mayor Agustin Navarro and left open an choice to pay compensation to maintain constructors out of ‘protected’ areas.
There was no remark so removed from Benidorm mayor, Toni Perez, or the remainder of his Partido In style administration.
The spokesperson for the opposition PSOE socialists, Cristina Escoda, instructed the Informacion newspaper that they are going to wait to see what the council’s authorized division has to say.
Escoda acknowledged that the truth that Perez didn’t renew the agreements has ‘had dramatic and painful penalties for the council’.
She added that €330 million ‘represents two-and-a-half budgets’ and that the mayor ought to apologise for his ‘irresponsibility’.
Earlier than launching a Supreme Court docket problem final summer time, Perez described the Valencian court docket ruling as ‘nonsense’.
Domingo Monforte, a lawyer performing for the Murcia Puchades household, instructed SER Radio in Benidorm that they’re keen to debate a deal.
“If the Metropolis Council picks up the telephone and proposes a gathering to barter we’d be there the subsequent day,” he stated.
