Tenerife demolitions cause renewed Ley de Costas concerns
Tenerife demolitions cause renewed Ley de Costas concerns
Spanish authorities have started to demolish illegal homes in Tenerife. In total, 26 homes that contravene Spain's coastal law, the Ley de Costas, are to be knocked down in the Cho Vito neighbourhood.
Police yesterday evicted 60 people from
Tenerife's
Cho Vito neighbourhood, reports Spanish Property Insight.
The coastal department of
Spain's Ministry of the Environment claims that under the
Ley de Costas many of the houses in Cho Vito, built in the 1950s, stand on public ground. The Ley de Costas was introduced in 1988 to protect Spain's coastline from
overdevelopment.
The Ley de Costas has until now only affected a small number of
isolated properties, according to The Telegraph. The
demolitions at Cho Vito have raised fears that the Spanish government is reviving its efforts to apply the
coastal law.
Concerns have been raised that only individual owners are being targeted and not hotels and other big developments.
"This recent activity shows there is still a problem for
coastal home owners....It seems the application of the law is completely impartial," Mark Stucklin of Spanish Property Insight told the paper.
Under proposals announced last year, houses in Spain built within 550 yards of the sea could be confiscated by the state.
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