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Retrospective Application Of The Law On Property Permits In Spain

EDM number 69 in 2010-12, proposed by Bob Russell on 25/05/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Planning and Western Europe.

That this House calls on the Spanish government to reach a settlement with UK property owners affected by the decision to issue judicial instructions of arbitrary cancellation and retrospective application of the law on permits to build, rendering a number of properties to be retrospectively judged to be illegal; urges the Spanish government to offer compensation for financial losses incurred by UK property owners or alternatively to issue a moratorium on demolitions until a mutual settlement is reached in cases when property owned by British citizens is subjected to demolition orders or financial penalties for allegedly breaching building regulations; and further calls on the Government to offer advice to UK citizens and to urge the Spanish government to accept that property erected in what at the time was deemed to have been through legal means should be secure, without the threat of loss or demolition when faced with retrospective law changes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell25/05/2010ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Peter Bottomley26/05/2010Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Adrian Sanders26/05/2010TorbayLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mike Hancock26/05/2010Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
John Leech02/06/2010Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Williams07/06/2010CeredigionLiberal DemocratSeconded
Caroline Lucas07/06/2010Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Nigel Dodds09/06/2010Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Tom Watson10/06/2010West Bromwich EastLabourSigned
John Hemming10/06/2010Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell30/06/2010Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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