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Let’s go back to early May this year a couple of weeks before the most recent local elections. The PSOE was in power and had been for a couple of years.  There was an Urbanisation Plan (the 2007 PGOU) that had been submitted by the Council which had been through all the local procedures.

It was known that there were some technical challenges to the plan and it was likely that it would be annulled so the City Council had prepared a new plan that fixed these errors and changed some areas from white to “urbanisable.” Also, some areas that had been yellow (urbanisable) or yellow and white striped (urbanisable in the next phase) were changed to white (and blue) due mostly to flooding issues.

Source: Diario Bahía de Cádiz 11th May

This is the opinion of the town planning delegate for Chiclana, Cándida Verdier. She explained the action being taken to resolve the problems that homeowners living in illegally built properties - on land not intended for the purposes of building - are currently faced with. She said that a solution allowing people in this predicament access to basic services was 'ever closer'.

Source: Diario de Cádiz    1st April 2011

José María Román will today declare, in a meeting of council members, the unanimous support of the town's politicians for the new agreement signed with residents´ groups with regard to the legalisation process. The mayor will make it clear that the legalisation process "will be done at cost price"

Source: Diario de Cádiz   23rd March 2011

The opposition is accusing the PSOE of wanting to deceive homeowners "by telling them that they will be able to gain access to mains electricity and water" whilst Verdier maintains that this is "one more step towards helping homeowners get out of legal limbo".