Hi every one
I would appreciate any advice with my problem.
I bought a land north off Valencia in a well developed and legal area. I engaged Spanish architect who completed our design (I am structural engineer and have done the initial design) and applied for the building licence from the local town hall. We obtained the licence and building started in August 2006. The construction of the house was going fine until there was a local election last May and a change of political party. A new councillor started making it difficult for to progress the work. We asked around from our Spanish friends who sniffed around and came back to tell us that she has her own agenda to achieve. She wants to sort out some of her political opponents internally, plus possibly others aims which she has not yet revealed. Unfortunately we are now coat in her claws. She is using our house as a tool to get rid of the Town Hall chief architect, who was in charge when the licence was issued and he is from the opposite party. Initially she started coming to site and telling us we were building wrong and thenshe made the Town Hall served a notice to stop the work. In the notice they claime there are four mistakes in our building and they listed them.
Our building is exactly as per the drawings of the licence. Also, whatever they are claiming are clearly indicated in the drawings and they have approved them and we build as shown in the approved drawings. We ask the Town Hall whether the licence is wrong or we diverted from the drawings of the licence? They do not answer. They tell us to demolish. It is clear to us now is not the building the issue but other hidden matters.
We have been talking to a solicitor who checked every things and he is of the same opinion as us. He assured us that all our paper work is sound.
It seems there is only one way forward and that is to go to court and here I would appreciate some help. I feel our course of action should be:
I feel our course of action should be:
- Take the Town Hall to a special court who deals with building and building licences to release the work.
- To halt the councillor’s mission, I feel, we should sue the Town Hall for discrimination (because we are not Spanish) and this could be easily proven by just comparing our house with what is being build around us.
Your thoughts and advise please?
Many thanks