The illegal urbanization of the island of Valdecañas (Cáceres): total demolition by Supreme Court ruling of 2022

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https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2023.216.6

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Valdecañas Island, Urbanization, Illegality, Judgment, Demolition

Abstract

The judgment of February 9, 2022 of the Supreme Court, which orders the total demolition of the urbanization on the artificial island of the Valdecañas reservoir (Cáceres), represents the largest demolition in Spain of illegal constructions, with the singularity that those responsible do not they are neither a private company nor individuals, but the Administration. It contains important repercussions for Urban Planning in Spain: firstly, because it will prevent the interested interpretations of the regionals governments that have been urbanizing the "protected non-urbanizable land" through different alibis, after having included 23% of the Spanish territory within the Natura 2000 Network, with or without environmental values; second, because the jurisprudence established by the Supreme Court closes the door - which the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura had left open in the first instance - so that illegal constructions could not be demolished, accepting the excuse of their high cost, which would have made it impossible to legal concept of “reparation of the damage caused”.

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2023-06-21

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Salcedo-Hernández, J. C., & Campesino-Fernández, A. J. (2023). The illegal urbanization of the island of Valdecañas (Cáceres): total demolition by Supreme Court ruling of 2022. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 55(216), 373–390. https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2023.216.6

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Vol. 55 No. 216 (2023): CyTET verano 2023

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