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Expropriation Cases
Property Falling in a Road, Park or School Area in the Zoning Plan: Expropriation Request, Legal Taking and Compensation Action
Expropriation request, legal taking, competent court and compensation for a plot that falls in a road, park or school area in the zoning plan.
Municipal Law and Licensing Procedures
Objecting to a Municipality’s Demolition Cost Claim: Who Owes the Debt, the Calculation and Collection Proceedings
The debtor of the demolition cost, the expense calculation, the 20 percent surcharge and objecting to a payment order; time limits and routes of action.
Municipal Law and Licensing Procedures
Objecting to a Municipality’s Parking Fee Demand: Calculation, Exemption and Refund of Overpayment
How the parking fee is calculated, the general installment scheme, the risky-building exception and refund of overpayment; objection and litigation routes.
Expropriation Cases
Expropriation and Taking Without Expropriation: The De Facto–Legal Distinction, Routes of Action and Calculating Compensation
Expropriation and de facto and legal taking without expropriation compared: calculating compensation, the competent court, the action and 2026 case law.
Two-year and five-year periods in construction permits, renewal, the occupancy permit exception and the July 1, 2026 amendment. The commencement date and the effect of acquired rights.
Administrative Law and Administrative Courts
Compensation for the Annulment of a Construction Permit: Construction Costs, the Principle of Reliance and Municipal Liability
Which costs can be claimed when a construction permit is annulled? The principle of reliance, construction expenditure, calculation of loss and a real Council of State decision.
Municipal Law and Licensing Procedures
Rejection of an Alteration Permit and of a Request to Change a Building’s Use: Objection and Annulment Action
Zoning plan, project, condominium ownership, application and litigation routes where an alteration permit or change of use is rejected. With 2025 Council of State decisions.
Zoning Law
Property Located in a Protected Site: Construction Restrictions, Objection and the Owner’s Rights
Is your plot in a protected site (sit)? Types of protected sites, building conditions, objection, land exchange and compensation rights; a practical guide with a real Constitutional Court decision.
Urban Transformation and Risky Buildings
Objection to a Reserve Building Area Decision and Annulment Action: Right to Property, Time Limit and Stay of Execution
The 30-day time limit, the 30 percent condition, the right to property and stay of execution in a reserve building area decision. An application guide based on a Council of State decision.
Objection to cultural asset registration, notification, the time limit for suing and maintenance permits. The distinction between ownership, assistance and compensation, with a real Constitutional Court decision.
Zoning Law
Rejection of a Project by the Conservation Board: Objection, Annulment Action and Reapplication
When a conservation board rejects a project, how are the objection, the time limit for suit and reapplication handled? Technical documents and an actual Constitutional Court decision.
Who can bring an action against a neighbor’s construction permit? The 60-day time limit, the date of learning, objection to the municipality and the conditions for a stay of execution.
Ownership and Neighbor Disputes
Neighbor’s Construction Damaging Your Building: Preservation of Evidence, Halting the Construction, and Compensation
If a neighbor’s excavation has damaged your building: preservation of evidence, interim injunction, mandatory mediation, and compensation, with a real Court of Cassation decision applied.
Objection to the coastal edge line, the time limit for suing, cancellation of title and compensation routes. Technical evidence, stay of execution and a real Constitutional Court decision.
What can be done if a municipality rejects a plan amendment request? The competent body, technical report, public benefit, filing period and the effect of an annulment decision.
The 90 percent value increase share on zoning plan amendments, exemptions, the 7-day objection, payment and the time limit to sue, explained with the new Regulation and the Constitutional Court decision.
Does a new zoning status certificate start the limitation period for an action? Obtaining information, the implementing act, the 60-day period and the five-year limit explained through Council of State decisions.
Municipal decision, the parcelling requirement, filing deadline, technical documents and remedies, with Council of State decisions, when a subdivision or consolidation application is rejected.
Administrative Law and Administrative Courts
Compensation Action for Unlawful Demolition: Building Value, Property Damage and Loss of Earnings
How are building value, property damage and loss of earnings claimed after an unlawful demolition? The full remedy action, time limits, evidence and a real Constitutional Court decision.
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