An extension to the public consultation period for those registering their land in the Loulé council area has failed to level out the flow of property owners desperate to lodge complaints over what they see as incorrect or incomplete registration details.
Queues have been forming at parish council offices with may concerned locals arriving hours before the doors open to get a chance to complain - and failing.
Loulé was one of seven municipalities in the country selected to test drive the new Cadastro Predial land registry system whereby property owners logged their own property details which then were entered into a national register called the Sistema Nacional de Exploração e Gestão de Informação Cadastral (SiNErGIC).
The period within which to check details on the newly constructed land survey map ends in a few days on September 22nd with the council enabling the plan to be viewed at the area's nine parish council offices, but the system still is in chaos with demands for yet another extension being lodged at the council offices.
In the parish of Salir over 2,000 complaints already have been registered with people queuing to question the sudden disappearance of farm buildings and of those land boundary lines that mysteriously have moved to their disadvantage.
The project started in July 2013 but the difficulty in locating buildings on remote farms and the over-enthusiastic registration of boundaries by those bordering what may have appeared to be untended land has created a new database containing thousands of inconsistencies and errors, despite the modern information technology being used.
The government had to start somewhere and Loulé council was chosen along with São Brás de Alportel and Tavira in the Algarve to test drive a system that has fallen foul of the two aspects that cannot be predicted with any degree of accuracy, human error and human nature.
