The Junta de Andalucía approves today a new 'regulation of urban discipline', the Reglamento de Disciplina Urbanística de Andalucía, which 'aglutinates all the rules of prevention, inspection and sanction' of constructions into one package.
It gives town halls the right (and the obligation) to demolish 'manifestly illegal' buildings within a month of the owner being advised, according to the buck-passing Juan Espadas, the housing tsar for the Junta de Andalucía, as the capacity of town halls will 'be re-inforced in urban discipline, since it was previously alleged that the ayuntamientos couldn't halt construction in non-urbanisable areas because the courts wouldn't allow it'. (!!)
So, don't blame those fellows at the Junta, it's out of their hands...