28 Mar 2013 5:30 PM:

 

  i wondered why you were being such a pain Norman . Envy is a terrible thing !

i pay my taxes to the UK and spend my money in Spain . I do my bit .... i would change the weather for the beautiful lambs if  i could .

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28 Mar 2013 1:49 PM:

but i was not going down the legality side of the issue , i was wondering if community permission is needed to build such a permanent construction  The second meeting we had in the year I arrived was to vote on the possibility of sheds / rooms built on private roof gardens belonging to the penthouse owners . It was rejected . As was hanging washing on the balcony , enclosing the laundrette  and using empty car parking spaces in the garage . Since then there has been a change of Administrator and when i approached her , just as the foundations were being excavated for the pool , she informed me that it was no ones business what garden owners do in their own garden . It has taken 6 weeks and now a fully funcional swimming pool to ascertain that indeed 100% of owners need to give permission ...... soon a meeting will be called to vote on it . Too late now ofcourse .......he is going to destroy his very costly swimming pool if the vote goes against him ??????  or maybe he'll promise not to use it . Is there a dfference between roof gardens and ground gardens ? 

Anyway  , do you need council licences to build an above ground permanent swimming pool in your privately owned apartment garden in a block of residential apartments in Mallorca i wonder ?

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28 Mar 2013 12:27 PM:

actually Norman the block of 18 apartments are all residential and when i bought the apartment from the local developers they assured me a swimming pool in the only two apartments with small gardens would not be allowed .. The pool is app 6 foot above the ground made of concrete blocks and bricks , fully tiled ,  6 ft deep ( they dug down to put footings in ) and i guess about 11/12ft square  . It has a ladder to access the pool cemented into the ground and it is full of water  . It is below my lounge window because i am the apartment above it . The block is an L shape i am in the shor part of the L so my lounge looks over their garden . It is my home . I have some beach land in Sri Lanka but have never owned a holiday home of any kind . I hav lived here for 7 years with no complaint to anybody before now . The current owners of the pool are grown up and  am sure , will be tucked up in bed by midnight  , my anxiety is when they sell the apartment . They want to move to the Canary Islands .  Every owner has lived here since the apartments were built 7 years ago . There is a community pool if they are willing to pay a higher community fee and a gorgeous beach and town 8 mins walk away .There is no doubt that te garden is privately owned , other than a paved area around the front and side of the building there are no external communal areas . The back garden apartment look onto campo .

 

This message was last edited by patrice on 28/03/2013.
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27 Mar 2013 4:46 PM:

 

sorry John , i have a habit of claiming all interesting things as my own and ofcourse i do exaggerate a little bit . i will be more observant in future .    patrice

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27 Mar 2013 3:50 PM:

minor works !!! excuse me John this is a hugely major affair . It takes up half the garden , is just under my lounge window and there will be no regulations .... they will be cavorting in that pool till midnight i am sure .  And no , not even inviting me in will put this right !

 

I do thank you John for the PDF info i will surely look  as soon as get to my home computer .

 

Well Baz , i was actually talking about other flat owners permission . Not sure how many hairs you have in delicate places is relevant to the subject ......or have i missed something ?

                                                                                     

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