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Article: Our pain in Spain; FAMILY: Couple's anguish as pounds 200,000 dream home in sun facing the bulldozer.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Byline: By Ben Hurst
A MIDLAND couple's dream move to Spain has turned into a nightmare after the local council ordered their pounds 200,000 home to be bulldozed.
Birmingham businessman Robert Mail together with his wife Lynn and daughter Michaela, aged 13, sold up and moved to a newly built villa in La Marina, Elche, south of Alicante.
But their home has fallen foul of Spanish planners, and the couple now claim they were lured into buying a house which was illegally constructed.
Their land was designated rustic with no building allowed but their villa was still erected by the Prever2002 project, which isrun by a Belgian organisation"Last week Elche council ...
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