The neighborhood platform Adelante Eurovillas has taken a formal step by registering two official documents with the town halls of Nuevo Baztán and Villar del Olmo. In these, they demand the definitive reception of the development, the dissolution of the Conservation Urban Entity, and the immediate cessation of mandatory fee collection from property owners. This claim follows an appeal filed on January 8th with the Department of Environment, Agriculture, and Interior of the Community of Madrid.
According to the platform, the backing of the Ombudsman is crucial, as it considers it necessary to end a provisional situation that has lasted for 58 years. This group argues that this provisional status violates the rights of the owners of the nearly 4,000 plots that make up this development, affecting approximately 12,000 residents.
Adelante Eurovillas denounces a situation of 'double taxation'. Residents pay local taxes such as IBI (Property Tax) and other municipal fees, yet they are also forced to finance, through a mandatory private entity, services that they consider public. These services include public lighting, sanitation, street cleaning, and gardening, as well as the security of roads that, in their opinion, should be of strictly public use and maintenance.
Following the support from the Ombudsman, the platform has formally urged the Community of Madrid and the involved town halls to assume their shared legal responsibilities and coordinate to resolve this issue. The platform recalls that Spanish jurisprudence unanimously states that conservation entities cannot be perpetuated indefinitely once the land is fully consolidated, a situation they consider evident in Eurovillas for decades.
Among the requested measures are the coordinated official reception of all infrastructures, roads, and public spaces of the development by the town halls of Nuevo Baztán and Villar del Olmo. They also request the dissolution and liquidation of the Conservation Urban Entity and the definitive suspension of fee payments by property owners, so that these services are assumed by municipal coffers with the support of the regional administration.
The platform warns that if the involved town halls and the Community of Madrid persist in their inaction and continue to ignore the Ombudsman's ruling, they will initiate legal actions through the administrative-judicial route and demand patrimonial responsibility for the damages caused over the years.
