10 Dec 2009 12:45 PM:

Hello All.

I‘ve been reading through all the recent comments.   I must say that things are not smelling too good.  And that, as you will see, is a pun in rather poor taste.

Just before the recent Spanish holidays, my wife, who is Spanish, took Seagull’s advice and contacted the Town Hall.  The news is jaw-dropping to say the least.

It seems that none of the Medina Elvira development is connected to the mains water supply.

There is no way to remove the sewerage or residual water from any of the urbanizations.  Apparently part of the permission depended on the installation of a water purification plant that has never materialized and this is not acceptable to the town hall.

The cost to connect to the mains supply will be somewhere in the region of 6-800,000 euros.  The Town Hall has also said they are not going to assume this cost under any circumstances and this is down to the developer.  It is, apparently, why no water contracts are in place in Medina 23.  No connection, no contract.

It is a touch and go situation with the licences of first occupation for the urbanizations because of this – which might explain the massive delay (according to my information, the licence was applied for in May or June this year).

I think the whole thing stinks – obviously this has been known to the developers since the beginning.

I’ve now passed all the information onto my legal advisors and instructed them to, under no circumstances whatsoever, to complete on my purchase until all contracts for all utilities are in place, not just the certificates. I want the utilities up and running – proven to be – before I hand over another cent.  And that includes the water!

Community thread: I am in shock!!

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