Belkacem Bouchouala Azirar is the co-owner, alongside along with his ex-wife, of the plot of rustic land in Manacor that’s below investigation by the Balearic Government’s housing ministry and the National Police for having eleven shanties.
He maintains that these shanties have squatters and that there have been already squatters when he purchased the plot. He insists that he has by no means acquired any hire. “No one has paid me something.”
He denies a declare made by one of many folks dwelling in these shanties that, whereas he hasn’t paid hire, he has helped pay electrical energy and water payments. The electrical energy payments have amounted to 800 euros a month. Bouchuala says this isn’t true. “None of the individuals who stay right here have ever paid and nor do they pay for electrical energy or water. I went to the police to have these companies minimize off, they usually knowledgeable me that I could not do that whereas these locations had been occupied. I have never constructed any; the whole lot has been constructed by squatters.”
He has a replica of a doc submitted to the Manacor Town Hall’s social companies division in December final 12 months. This states he has a 50% share of the agricultural property and that he didn’t give permission for any of the folks dwelling there to be registered with the city corridor. “What I would like is for them to maneuver elsewhere and go away the property vacant,” the doc provides.
It has emerged that the plot and the shanties have in reality been recognized to the authorities and been below their scrutiny for some years. In October 2020, the city corridor’s planning division reported the unlawful nature of the shanties to the Council of Mallorca’s Agency for the Defence of Territory (ADT), the physique that’s chargeable for investigating and taking motion towards constructing infractions on rustic land.
In November 2021 the ADT issued a high quality of €50,600 for having carried out the work and not using a licence. This high quality additionally took account of the truth that it could not be potential to legalise the constructing work. The Council of Mallorca has this week acknowledged that a demolition order had additionally been issued by the ADT and that the homeowners had submitted a plan for demolition.
So, the city corridor and the Council of Mallorca have been totally conscious of the scenario with regard to the land and the buildings for not less than 5 years, throughout which era nothing seems to have occurred. On Wednesday, authorities housing inspectors turned up.
