The city council achieved a new sentence to avoid having to repay more than 1.5 million euros of an agreement signed in 2002 for the development of a sports and residential area in the district of Puri.
The Councillor for Economy and Finance of the City of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, has reported that the courts have come to agree with the Consistory in the defense that has been practicing against the demands of the promoters who signed planning agreements planning in the frame, in this case, a specific modification of the General Plan Municipal Management.
Fulgencio Gil explained that this week has received a new favorable to the interests of Lorca stating that the work that is being developed in legal matters by the Local Administration has saved citizens sentence 1,412,377 euros, amount to which another 5 million euros has also managed to retain the City Council in successive favorable judgments resulting from litigation against planning agreements are added.
Gil noted that recently the Administrative Court No. 3 of Murcia has decided to dismiss the appeal of the company Promociones Sostelor requiring the City Council repayment of 1,412,377 euros, which demanded that the interest will be added corresponding legal and regression of the urban classification of the land to its original state.
This Court has even imposed the payment of costs to the appellant, a fact that also is occurring in this type of case against the City.
It is clear that the company mentioned intended the planning agreement for the development of a sports and residential area in Purias Provincial Council, signed on 28 November 2002. This was to revoke the dismissal by administrative silence was resolved that the full City Council he had already made at the meeting of May 26, 2014.
The mayor of Economy said that it is very good news for Lorca, since it assumes that the Consistory will not have to return 14 years later the large amount, which would have been a serious blow to the municipal coffers.
We are talking about various conventions in the manner and at the bottom of the approved in Inadequate Land for Urban Development (SIDU) and therefore the City Council have struggled through the appropriate legal channels to defend the Consistory and Lorca, with good result of not having to repay those 1.5 million.
The Councillor for Economy and Finance stressed that this new ruling in favor of Lorca adds to the favorable rulings to the City in planning agreements in La Paca (3 million), Zarcilla (193,000 euros) and Puri (1.8 millions).
The reason given justice is a clear to all Lorca respite, as the municipal coffers have suffered more if they had had to return these 5 million euros ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca