Illegal use of public land used as a Workers Compound and rubbish dump

Members of the HRGR Association requested that the Community of administrators to confirm the legal ownership of the land that has been established as the workers compound. This has been confirmed as public land which is owned by the Ayuntomiento de Murcia, the Murcia local council.

Accordingly, the Community of Owners, its Presidents, Committee members or administrators or any of its contractors together with the golf course owners IRM, do not have any rights over this land especially with the legally binding Environmental Impact Statement for the Resort from 2005.

A fundamental issue exists regarding this public land that is being used by the resort gardeners, STV Gestion S.L.  and the golf course owners, INVERSIONES EN RESORTS MEDITERRANEOS, S. L, “IRM” as a rubbish dump which was never part of the resort plans or did not ever receive planning permission.

The issue was first raised in 2009 and the HRGR Association have worked with both the Administrators and the yearly elected members of the HRGR Committee to progress what had been, and had not, officially agreed with the Local Authority since then.

Despite several chasing letters and raising the issue consistently over the last 4 years, the newly elected HRGR Committee have not subsequently changed their views and decided this is no longer a problem.  Furthermore, the newly elected committee have publicly verbally attacked 2 HRGR Sub Community Presidents who have raised this issue for continuing to seek resolution to what is not approved or allowed on public land.

 In order to be very clear, this land is public land, has no planning permission to be used for any other purpose than public land and we will continue to fight to ensure that IRM and the STV gardeners are not allowed to be there.

Status

1.    IRM, the golf course owners and STV, the community gardeners are not at liability to decide on the usage of this land or the erection of any fixed structure, including fencing.

2.  IRM, STV or any other contractor have not been given any legal right to place equipment, materials, rubbish or chemicals on this site and are not in compliance with the Environmental Impact Study for the Resort. Accordingly, they need to be moved off this location immediately.

3)     The approved infrastructure areas for the resort are coded yellow on the plans and are the only areas in compliance with the Environmental Impact Study. Any equipment used within the resort or outside need to be road worthy as all roads within the resort are officially classed as public roads

4)    A clear list of chemicals used in the site has to be prepared and details of any chemicals dumped on site.

Conclusion.

The resort is built on a protected environmental SPA area for wild plants of the Region Murcia, which must be preserved with conservation and environmental improvement being the way all parties must operate within the region. Furthermore, the area has an Eagle and Owl home range and is of particular interest for Heron.

It is clear that the Community of Owners its contractors and the golf course company, IRM are not clearly following the approved Environmental Impact Survey for the resort and measures need to be taken now to prevent further damage to this environment.

What is key in the short term is a solution to the lake water levels as well as formal positions as to what is allowed, where, when and how within the Resort. This needs to include confirmation to prevent the current compound being used and the implementation of a long term plan for the sustainability of the resort in keeping with the Environmental Impact Survey to protect the environment, fauna and flora and wildlife of the resort.

We accordingly expect an urgent investigation of these matters. by the Murcia Local Council, SEPRONA and Ecologistas en Acción, ANS.