Junta de Andalucía and Mijas Town Hall have reached an agreement which represents a step forward in the legalisation of some 8,000 irregularly built properties in the municipality. The news was given on Friday by the local councillor for town planning, Manuel Navarro, who explained the deal to the spokespeople from the three main opposition groups. A complete inventory of all the irregular constructions is being carried out, in far more detail that the catalogue of such properties which was started by the previous governing team in the town, with the target of giving a global vision of the number of irregular properties there are in Mijas. The new count is being made using aerial photographs, which are being added to a digitalised cadastre map of the boundaries of each property, its exact location, characteristics, and the size of the irregular construction. Then the agreement with the Junta means that that the PGOU can be modified in sections to legalise the properties, and Navarro claims that after meeting the Delegate for Territorial Ordination in Málaga, Enrique Benítez, this proposal will become a reality. It’s a pioneering agreement and will see the municipalities irregular properties split into five zones, with the idea that the process will allow the Town Hall to gain an idea on infrastructure and services which are needed in each area. The process will get underway in the Valtocado district first, and this will serve as a pilot for both the Junta and Town Hall to extend the scheme. The town planning councillor said that Mijas is a pioneer in regularising homes in this way ‘It may take longer, possibly, but we guarantee to solve this urgent social problem which is one of the main concerns in our municipality’, said Navarro. He estimated that the process could take between eight and ten months and noted that afterward each resident must solve their administrative problems individually, and meet the economic costs of legalising the situation of their home definitively.
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