The town hall that wrongfully issued the building licence should be fined of course (hopefully that will happen) but the problem does not end there because there is still an illegal building on rural land.
If the law says that the building should not be there and nothing can be done to legalise it then it has to come down.
If the owners bought the house in good faith, as would seem to be the case, then the courts should swiftly and adecuately compensate them at the cost of those who were to blame.
The time for the Junta de Andalisia to act was when they first detected the erroneous licence and they should have moved quickly to prevent the construction of the property, thereby limiting the damage to the party who (presumably) bought in good faith.
I cannot reallly say any more about this right now as I am still researching the article.
I believe that there is a whole can or worms here and all sorts of facts will emerge.
This is not the first demolition in Almeria. 5 other properties were eliminated in December and the Junta state that there are another 11 pending in the Vera area.
Even this could be just the tip of the iceberg.
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