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Here’s the press release:

A round table meeting is taking place in Mojacar between Local Urban Abuse organisations and Local Ecologists Movements in Mojacar on Saturday 30th May, starts at 11.00am in the Hotel Best Mojacar.

On this Round Table from the Province of Almeria will be

Ecologistas en Acción (Almeria)
Abusos Urbanísticos Almanzora No (Almanzora valley)
Levante Sostenible
Abusos Urbanísticos Levante Almeriense No. (Almeria coastal area)

From outside the Province of Almeria, AUN, the first Citizen Platform to make any impact, will lead others with an interest in urban and environmental issues in Spain

Abusos Urbanísticos No (Valencia)

The objective is to achieve an exchange of views on the Auken report (an EU resolution condemning Spain’s scant regard of Human Rights and Environmental Abuses at all levels of the system)

The ecologists would not support wholesale legalisation of houses.  This meeting is intended to show the human aspect of the situation, and to find a way to work together, agree common ground and issue a joint communique.

A large turnout is expected with the intention that this will impress upon the ecologists just how many people are affected.

David Hammerstein will be attending, an MEP who sits on the Petitions Committee and was part of the investigation visit to Spain for the Auken report.

If you have an illegal house, you need to be there.  Even if you don´t have an illegal house, you will be very welcome.

The AUN (Abusos Urbanisticos No) group have written a concise and interesting analysis and comparision between UK and Spanish town & rural planning systems. Worth a read:

http://abusos-no.blogspot.com/2009/01/town-and-country-planning-systems.html

Developed with the help of British lawyers.