The City Council of Platja d'Aro and the 1,200 owners of the 850 properties on the Passeig Marítim affected by the Coasts law will take legal action so that their flats, houses, garages and storage rooms no longer form part of the area of maritime public domain terrestrial Their situation has worsened even more since September 2019, with the change of criteria of the new property registrar in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, which refuses to register transactions of sale or receipt of inheritances in strict compliance of the law; a way of proceeding different from that of its predecessor, which had no problems registering the operations as a domain. The situation is causing serious problems for those who want to buy or sell. Buyers who need bank financing are mostly unable to access it because the property is not on the register and sellers may end up accepting very low offers in order to sell.
The start of the judicial process - agreed upon in a recent meeting called by the City Council at the request of the Associació del Passeig Marítim - comes after the formal request of the City Council of Platja d'Aro to the general management of Costs to exclude the municipal term from the public domain. The deadline to respond to this request expires on March 31 and, in the face of silence as a response, the City Council and private individuals have decided to go to court.
The first to take these first steps will be the Consistory, which on Monday will make a request to the Ministry for the Ecological Transition urging the decommissioning and informing that, if this is not the case, within 30 days they will file an administrative appeal to the ' National Hearing "against the inactivity" of the administration. The mayor, Maurici Jiménez, of the PSC, of the same political color as the current Government, trusts in a resolution of the case "in the short term", bearing in mind that there are other Spanish municipalities with "thousands of victims" affected by the same problem .
Another one will be added to the City Council's appeal, which will be filed later by the communities of owners, private individuals and the Platform for Affected Persons by the Public Domain. As the judicial proceedings progress, everything will be incorporated into the same case.
The president of the Associació del Passeig Marítim, Rafael Arau, explains that "they are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel" to resolve a situation that the 2013 Coastal law left on standby. The seventh additional provision of this law excluded 12 cores from the maritime and terrestrial public domain, including Platja d'Aro.
The Public Domain Affected Platform and estate administrators celebrate the start of the judicial process so that the owners can recover 100% of the property. The administrator Xavier Domínguez points out that, beyond problems arising from not being able to register sales, the situation has caused a devaluation of the price of the flats. "Groups have appeared that take advantage of these situations, with minimum reductions of 50% of their value" he points out. Albert Català, also administrator and president of the Affected Platform, explains that a neighbor has been offered to buy her flat for a third of its value. "The message is to hold on, because in a year, or two years at the most, this situation could be resolved," he says.
