Article in the Telegraph

Expats hope to avoid wrecking ball by appeal to European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg following rejections from Spanish legal system.

A retired British couple who were told their Spanish home would be bulldozed are to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The pair, who are originally from Yorkshire but do not wish to be named, paid around £120,000 to have their dream home built in Albox, in Andalucia in southern Spain. The house was completed in 2001.
But in 2009 they were among a dozen Albox homeowners issued with demolition orders after the regional government deemed them to have been built on non-urban land. This was despite the fact the original planning licences were granted by the town hall.
The couple, both in their 60s, have since been fighting the order via the Spanish courts but their latest appeal was rejected by the TSJA, Andalucia’s highest court, in November 2012.
They are now preparing take the case to Strasbourg, with the support of expat-run campaign groups AUAN and SOHA.ES, who together represent over a thousand homeowners in the Almanzora Valley and in the Axarquia, Malaga province.

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