The Cartagena City Council will save around 1.5 million interest, thanks to the extrajudicial agreement reached with the owner of the land that was used in 2008 for the construction of access to Barrio Peral from Severo Ochoa Square.
The Local Government Board, chaired by the mayor and responsible for the area of ​​Urban Planning, Ana Belén Castejón, has approved the terms of this agreement that will also result in the dismissal of the lawsuit filed in court by the developer, who claimed payment of the land after the urbanization compensation that had been assigned to it had been null and void after the annulment of the 2012 General Plan.
As well as the nearly 3.7 million euros that the claims in the courts added in terms of the value of the land and the legal interests that had generated its default since 2008, the City Council will finally pay about 2.3 million euros, in five deadlines, until 2023. The first.
on December 15 for an amount of 42,289 euros and the remaining months of February 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, at a rate of 566,710.27 euros.
The Governing Board has also approved, among other matters, a budgetary modification for the realization of a campaign to promote the candidacy of Cartagena as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the upcoming Christmas holidays, for an amount of just over 47 thousand euros, from the casualties produced in works tenders.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena