El Castillo Golf Resort in Jumilla, Murcia, Spain

May 23, 2009

Furious Briton Alan Ablett is fighting to get his deposit back from a developer who he says has not even started building his home. We suggest that buyers should b aware of planning problems with this development.

“In Jan 20007 we put down a deposit on an apartment on the El Castillo Golf Resort (a deposit of almost 21,000€),” explains Ablett, originally from Hull, who moved to Spain with his wife 6 years ago. “ The property was supposed to be completed in Dec 2008 (this was supposed to be a development with 5 star hotel, 18 hole golf course, prestigious golf club, shopping centres, equestrian centres, paddle courts, gymnasiums etc) yet no building works have even begun yet due to the failure to secure building licences (only the show homes have been built).”

“There is no prospect of them getting building licences, and they have no intention of paying back deposits,” Ablett said. “Apart from some show homes and the sales office they haven’t laid a brick.”

Ablett, who is organising a campaign to name and shame Pollos Pujante SA, the company behind the development, is in touch with around 20 other Britons who have bought off-plan and paid deposits, with nothing to show for their money. Pollos Pujante SA’s main business is processing chickens on an industrial scale, and it ranks amongst the biggest 500 companies in Spain.

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