A partly-built, luxury villa in Quinta do Lago has been demolished on the orders of Loulé Council.
The original building permit was issued by the municipality for construction of a house on Lot No. 30, Loteamento do Lago in Quinta do Lago.
At the beginning of 2014, a request to build a villa with a swimming pool in a prime area of the luxury estate was analysed, being approved in January 2015 by the Council. The villa is It is on the east side of the lake, about 200 metres back from the Casa do Lago restaurant.
However, after technical analysis, it was verified that the work being carried out was not complying with the plans, the rules and the regulations and seemed to have strayed outside the defined building area.
After several attempts to legalise the construction, that the Council says was wrong from the start, none of the newly submitted projects accorded with the Council’s technical requirements.
As the situation was going nowhere, the Council decided to act and issued a demolition order which has seen the plot revert to just that, a plot with no illegal building in sight.
Loulé’s mayor, Vítor Aleixo, said that the demolition, "is a good example of the speed and effectiveness of municipal services in an area so important to the economic dynamics of the County," adding that the urbanisation plan for the area is now back on track.
One well-informed neighbour commented of the owner, "He just ignored the building limit and thought he could get away with it."
