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The Ponte de Lima City Council will block the construction of a house for lack of a license, the city councilor said today, but the owner accuses the municipality of disrespecting a judicial decision that determines the license.
Contacted today by the Lusa agency, the Councilor for Private Work and Urban Planning of the Ponte de Lima City Council, Vasco Ferraz, has explained that the order to seize the construction of houses in the parish of Santa Comba has already been issued and will be executed in the following days.
Speaking to Lusa, the owner, Edgardo Matos, guaranteed that “he will fight with all legal means to build the house to which he has the right to live with his family.”
“The land has more than 40 years of existence and currently faces a public road that has, contrary to what the Chamber alleges to reject the project, as the court came to prove, all the necessary infrastructure: electricity, water, sanitation , telecommunications, fiber optics ”, he justified.
Order to dismiss the job. Photo: DR
Order to dismiss the job. Photo: DR
On May 14, the Administrative and Tax Court of Braga (TAFB) decided, following a lawsuit filed in April by Edgardo Matos, that “there are no grounds for refusal” in the licensing process, whose project complies with “all legally required instructional elements ”.
In the decision, to which Lusa had access, the judge determines the “summons” of the Chamber “to, within 30 days, carry out the legally due act embodied in the decision of the licensing process, with the consequent decision regarding the building license. and respective guides for the payment of overdue fees ”.
For the Councilor for Private Works and Urban Planning of the Ponte de Lima City Council, Vasco Ferraz, the judicial decision “does not oblige the municipality to license the work”, which the municipality rejected by order of July 13.
“The court did not condemn or order to approve anything. If so, who are we going to disrespect? ”He told Lusa.
The application for a housing license that Edgardo Matos intends to build on land he inherited from his family, in Santa Comba, was presented to the town hall in 2016 and has awaited approval since then.
“The chamber never responded to my request, despite the many letters I wrote during this period. In April I decided to go to court, ”he explained.
According to Edgardo Matos, the court “condemned and summoned the Ponte de Lima City Council to approve the construction project within 30 days, to issue the construction license and guidelines for the payment of the respective fees”, but so far without success.
“The Chamber did not contest the claim that I filed, it did not appeal the judge’s ruling, which considers that there is no legal impediment for construction to advance, and it did not meet the deadline set to approve the license and issue the licenses. I waited for the decision to be final, I waited for the license to be sent to me, but they did not. I decided to pay all the fees owed and start the works in August, because according to the terms of the law, the sentence has a permit effect ”, he specified.
The owner assured that “he will not give up” to build his house in the parish where he was born.
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