ISSUENN . 1555 4//- 10 23June - 29 2015 APRIL 2015 ISSUE O.O1561
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Senate rejects bid to improve land registry ONE battle lost but fight goes on, pledges homeowners association
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Bums on seats demand to support festival Region to be held to promise for Roman theatre BERJA Town Hall aims to keep the pressure on the Andalucian regional government to support a festival of classical theatre at the Villavieja Roman amphitheatre, and to help fund new seating that is sympathetic to the ancient remains. See Page 3
Toss up for town hall Briton wins council seat on the throw of a €2 coin AFTER a dead heat in the town council election in Albanchez between the PSOE socialists and the independent group AIPAL, the two parties agreed to a coin toss
to decide which would take the seventh council seat. Tails nabbed the seat for AIPAL’s candidate Steve Conway. See Page 8
Under starter’s orders Work finally due to start on delayed shopping mall
By Linda Hall AS expected, Spain’s senate voted against amending the law that regulates the national land registry. Homeowners’ associations across Spain, including AUAN in Almeria and SOHA in Malaga, failed to persuade PP senators to vote to protect buyers. Both associations represent homeowners who have bought properties with an apparently clean bill of health
following a land registry search. Later, as has happened on many occasions, they can find that the property has planning issues or even a demolition order against it that is not mentioned in the registry. It came as no surprise that the amendment was not accepted since a senate committee vetoed these proposals some weeks back. It was still disappointing, admitted Maura Hillen of AUAN, who went to
the senate last month in a last-ditch attempt to convince majority PP senators to back the amendment. “Given that all parties seem to agree on the necessity for this change it is difficult to explain why it didn’t happen. “We may have lost that particular battle but we will submit our next initiative to all political parties next week. We won’t give up, because we have right on our side,” said Hillen who is now an Albox councillor.
THE first bricks will be laid this summer on the site of a planned shopping centre in Torrecardenas that was granted a building permit 10 years ago. Bogaris Retail announced that work would begin on the €115-million complex, after their exSee Page 16 pired licence was renewed.