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Spanish Senate Panel Backs PP Push for Coastal Demolition Moratorium

The vote forces a Government decision on a proposed pause to review Spain's Coastal Law.

Overview

  • The PP, which won a Wednesday vote in the Senate's regional affairs commission, advanced a motion for an immediate moratorium with PP-led coastal regions present in support.
  • The text urges a halt to all shoreline boundary cases and to Government actions of reversion, occupation, expiration of concessions, and demolition tied to those cases.
  • The motion must now go to the full Senate for final validation, and the Government has not yet set out its response.
  • Recent Newtral data estimates 86,426 homes sit inside the state-owned maritime–terrestrial zone, leaving owners at risk unless past concessions are extended or rules are revised.
  • The Coastal Law defines the public shoreline and, after boundary updates known as deslindes, lets authorities order restoration that can include tearing down buildings that fall inside the protected zone.