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Date Published: 21/11/2023

Parcent and Llíber: Putting the 'you' in 'commUnity'

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More and more villages with illegal expat homes in Alicante and Valencia are working together to solve their problems

Parcent and Llíber: Putting the 'you' in 'commUnity'

by John Michael Kirby, Technical Architect and Building Engineer

Inflation still high, Covid making a come-back, war in the Middle East... but perhaps the night isn’t as dark as it seems. There is a small group of people, some of them probably not too far from where you are, content not with just helping out their local community but staying busy creating a template for expat intra-community relations.

A couple of weeks ago, David Brock, the President of an expat home owner association (HOA) in the Alicante village of Parcent contacted me in my role as expat Commissioner and ex-municipal technician. David was attempting to kickstart the village’s attempts to legalise their properties built on rural land. As you may already know, that wheel has already been invented in the form of the MIT licences, or Territorial Impact Minimisation licences to give them their full name.

As we have also recently reported, thanks to the help of the HOA in Llíber and the efforts of the local council there we have made real progress in resolving a problem which had remained unresolved for more than three decades. In fact we already have a firm date, January 30, 2024, confirmed to me by the mayor of Llíber, José Juan Reus Reus, for the MIT licenses to be issued.

Now, the two Presidents of the two HOAs, Adrian Hobbs in Llíber and David Brock in Parcent, are collaborating in order apply those lessons learned in the process of legalisation so that the process in Parcent goes as smoothly as possible.

This newspaper, and me personally, would like to congratulate both associations, and their Presidents in particular. They can count on my support, which means I will be calling the mayor of Parcent this week to offer any assistance they might need. We are also in the process of organising a Town Hall meeting in Parcent, as we did in Llíber, in which we will answer any and all questions.

If you are interested in legalising a rural property or know someone that might be please see the links below, or email contact@murciatoday.com for more information on where to get help.

Useful links to learn more about illegal homes in Spain and where to get help

Proving your house is legalisable through the MIT licence
MIT Application form GV60301
Catastro webpage
Guia-T webpage (remember you need a digital signature to use this page)
How to use Guia-T to make the sectorial impact report free of charge and in less than 5 minutes step by step
A guide to occupation licences
The MIT Orientation guide (English version)
ICV tool for proving the date of construction of your property
How to find your house on the catastro database

John Kirby is a Technical Architect and Building Engineer (UPV), having won the award for outstanding academic achievement. He is the first foreigner to win that award and the only foreigner to ever be Municipal Technical Architect in Spain and a Judicial Property expert witness in Spain. He is Commisioner for Expatriates of the Valencian government and Ambassador for Spain and Gibraltar for Chartered Association of Building Engineers (UK).

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