Three years after the Junta de Andalucía’s planning decree 2/2012 came into force, only half of the municipalities in the province of Málaga have actually made any progress in their part of the process. The decree, an attempt to bring some sort of order to the maze of illegal construction in rural areas, required local authorities to draw up an
inventory of structures on land classified as ‘no urbanizable’ or to hand in a declaration stating that there were none.
Few town halls in the province have done this, an essential step before the properties can be named as Asimilado a Fuera de Ordenación (AFO). This status in any case has been declared as unacceptable by many home owners as it merely allows the properties to remain standing without making them fully legal.
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