Someone i know owns some land and wants to build but he has been told by a solicitor that spanish people have to build the basefir him and the shell first also his land has to be a certain size for the size of the house....weird...has anyone heard this. He has been waiting three years because he is told he needs to buy the land next door has anyone heard of this......cheers

Good evening

I definitely agree with Pondgirl on this one, your friend would be well advised to speak to an architect (arquitecto) or technical architect/surveyor (aparejador).

Planning regulations for urban-zoned land vary drastically from those for rural-zoned land, and regulations for urban-zoned plots can also vary widely.

Local councils will also give you information on what you can and can't do, but an architect or technical architect will be able to interpret that information.

Jeff
(Estate agent)

Hi Fishman,

A few years ago in Pinell the ayuntament wanted a quote from a spanisch registred builder when we applied for a licence. The main purpose was to calculate the licence fee (you will pay a percentage of the building costs). It does not mean the same builder have to do the work. The ayuntament of Pinell can tell you about the local rules and regulations.

Unfortunately the ayuntament of Pinell the Brai is not a big help in sorting out the non-local rules. They can't really tell you what kind of paperwork you will need to deliver. They just send your application to all the involved departments and then wait what their demands for additional paperwork will be. It is a frustrating proces that cost us 1,5 year and  a lot of money on rather useless paperwork. And this was just to get  the licence to finish an already almost finished building without a roof.

As Jeff & pondgirl alread pointed out: speak to an architect  is a good point to start; your friend will need one anyway to produce the paperwork.

Good luck, Mark

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I would disagree with you on that point Pondgirl and can prove that it isn't true.

I think that what you are all talking about are the various types of Cedula obtained,some of them being totally worthless!
My personnel opinion is that these worthless Cedulars are being issued for ;the architects to make a living and in order to drastically increase the Rates on a former allotment/donkey shed.
Also knowing how good the Cataloonians are at deception they will have some financial bombshell planned for all the extranjerous,in the future years,when they cannot sell any more allotments.

Hi Phil, what is a " worthless" cedula?  I assume you are talking about the cert that allows you live in the property and get services etc. 

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If the former allotments and donkey sheds now have houses on them that are being lived in then surely the rates should increase?  The rateable value of the land will have changed.  It's the same in the UK, except they are much stricter about where you can legally build in the first place.

silly question: why are people doing these things here if they would never do it in the u.k.?