Carmenes del Mar

Website of the Communities of Property Owners in La Herradura, Granada

Articles from February 2014

Petitioning the embassies of the foreign owners in Carmenes del Mar

Mon, 24/02/2014 - 13:59 -- admin

We have set up a petition at Change.org asking the Irish Embassy to intercede with Central Government and the Junta de Andalucia on behalf of the Irish owners in Carmenes del Mar. Now we need to do the same for the other nationalities who have bought houses in Carmenes del Mar. We need volunteers of each nationality to similarly petition the British, German, Danish and other embassies in Spain. If you would like to volunteer please contact us and we will help you to set up the petition.

IU condemns those responsible for "Crimenes de Mar"

Wed, 12/02/2014 - 22:29 -- admin

On the opening day of the Carmenes del Mar trial the spokesperson for the Izquierda Unida political party in Almuñecar, Fermín Tejero, showed his support for the "victims of a political corruption based on speculation and easy money" when he declared his "indignation at seeing how the promoter of Carmenes del Mar are trying to blame the property owners for the situation in which they find themselves."

For the IU spokesman, "Crimenes (Crimes) del Mar is the result of a close collaboration between corrupt politicians, promoters anxious for easy money, and technicians willing to sell themselves to the highest bidder. It is unacceptable that all of those politically responsible for the development are passing the buck and saying, with monumental cowardice, that it wasn't them. It is indecent that the promoters, a family of multimillionaires, accuse the buyers of the properties of not having adequately maintained the urbanization. And it is shameful that the technicians ...

Opening session of the Carmenes del Mar trial

Sun, 09/02/2014 - 14:26 -- admin

After an at times unbelievable series of delays, the long-awaited Carmenes del Mar trial finally got under way on Friday, February 7th, in Granada's Court of First Instance. In the first of 8 sessions, the presidents of the urbanization that make up Carmenes del Mar described how, when the property owners bought their homes, they did not know that Almuñecar Town Hall had not officially accepted the urbanisation project, a step that has still not been taken 10 years later. "The houses had their Licences of First Occupation, we pay our IBI, the waste collection and electricity bills. We thought that the initial flaws were construction defects", says one of the affected owners.

Lawyers for the 8 accused have insisted that the urbanization suffered breakages and ruptured pipes, such as one in the mains water supply pipes, that the owners did not react to and repair in time and in the ...