{"id":875,"date":"2012-05-05T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T10:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=875"},"modified":"2014-05-05T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:06:02","slug":"court-tells-la-reserva-de-marbella-that-consumers-are-sacred-and-shady-licenses-of-occupancy-are-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/court-tells-la-reserva-de-marbella-that-consumers-are-sacred-and-shady-licenses-of-occupancy-are-not-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Court tells La Reserva de Marbella that Consumers are Sacred and Shady Licenses of Occupancy are not Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court of First Instance number 12 of Malaga has ruled that the discussion on whether a licence of occupancy (licencia de primera ocupaci\u00f3n) obtained by administrative silence is valid or not, should not affect bona fide consumers (any consumer unless otherwise proven).<\/p>\n<p>In recent ruling, the Judge has argued that <strong>a consumer that buys off-plan property\u00a0should not be dragged into, and suffer, complex legal debates between a developer, La Reserva de Marbella, and an administrative body, the Marbella Town Hall, as\u00a0well as the Andalusian Regional Government.<\/strong>\u00a0The ruling also states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>La Reserva de Marbella <strong>is still not fully compliant<\/strong><em> with the policies of the Marbella Development Plan (PGOU), and has serious infrastructure deficiencies.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Both regional (RD 515\/1989) and national (LOE 38\/1999) laws stipulate that <strong>a<\/strong><em><strong> consumer is entitled to receive a fully legal licence of occupancy, free from litigation<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0not possible to invoke administrative silence<em>, by the mere passing of time, <strong>where it demonstrably contravenes planning laws and regulations<\/strong>. <\/em>The Judge presses on by arguing that administrative silence is to be upheld only if it does not go against both national or EU laws, noting that Spanish laws specify that administrative silence cannot be used to validate situations of illegality.<\/li>\n<li>4 years and 10 months from when the property should have been delivered, la Reserva is still unable to offer an unconditional licence of occupancy.<\/li>\n<li>C<strong>ompletion date<\/strong><em><strong> needs to be interpreted as a fixed date<\/strong>, and not a mere approximation<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>An<strong>\u00a0unproved strike somewhere down the construction process<\/strong> is not a valid excuse for a 4-year delay in getting a valid licence of occupancy and thus, being able to complete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conversely, the Malaga Administrative Courts have ruled on the admissibility of some of these licences and\u00a0<strong>that La Reserva is entitled to\u00a0them<\/strong> as these were granted pursuant to applicable laws.<\/p>\n<p>The question that remains is: will these Judges ever get together for a pint or two and straighten out -legal- disagreements?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court of First Instance number 12 of Malaga has ruled that the discussion on whether a licence of occupancy (licencia de primera ocupaci\u00f3n) obtained by administrative silence is valid or not, should not affect bona fide consumers (any consumer unless otherwise proven). 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