Habitation Certificate

Los Verdes in Orihuela are initiating a campaign to help those people who live in houses without a HABITATION CERTIFICATE (Certificate of Habitation – Cedula). These are cases where certificates have not been granted because of the developer’s negligence or the incompetence of the ruling party, the PP. It is an action that will continue the work that the Municipal Group Los Verdes commenced in 2003 and has been backed up by questions and interventions in the Council Plenary meeting and public denunciations about this situation throughout the last legislature.

The number of owners affected is numerous, as many in the Orihuela Costa areas as in the rest of the Municipality. All of these persons are very concerned about their properties and are frustrated because they cannot regularize the situation.

- People affected who have been living in this Municipality for many years and who continue receiving Builder’s water and electricity supply with the constant risk of cut-off.
- Families with children who need education at school and resort to using fake addresses to ensure that their child receives a placement.
- People who cannot vote, cannot exercise their fundamental rights, because without HABITATION CERTIFICATE they cannot be registered (Padrón).

Despite all of these problems, those affected are (of course) expected to pay their taxes religiously and without question.

In the final analysis, this deplorable situation indicates once again the incompetence of the ruling party, the PP, that has allowed and continues to allow the developers (“its friends”) to ride roughshod over the rights of the people. This Town Hall has not only ignored what has been happening, it has actually encouraged the developers to continue to get away with not fulfilling their contracts. Not only that, it has allowed the guaranteed funds to “disappear” in some cases, and none of the money has ever been used to ensure that the house owner continues to receive water and electricity or anything else for that matter. For this reason alone, those affected feel completely let down by a Town Hall that continues to ignore their legitimate rights in this matter.

Los Verdes in Orihuela are committed to help solve this problem once and for all. We aim to pressurize the Town Hall to ensure the legality of properties affected in this way. We want to ensure that as many certificates will be issued and as quickly as possible. We ask that those owners without Certificates of Habitation contact us, in their language, using the following email and phone number (it will help us if you will supply the name/number of your residence the address and the number of houses (in the case of urbanisations) that you think are affected ) :

losverdesinorihuelacosta@gmail.com


Mobil phone : 686 717273

Working Group of Los Verdes in Orihuela Costa Orihuela, 3rd of July 2009.