Keys Corner

We have been in Xàtiva for a couple of weeks to have a series of meetings with our architect to discuss and finalize the plans for our house. The meetings went very well, and we only have some small details where we still have some homework which we will handle by e-mail from home – mainly the location of power points and the layout of the garden. (More about the house in a later post) And we visited our lawyer in Valencia and gave him power of attorney to handle our tax affairs and the application for planning permission.

We also visited our plot and were surprised to discover that the neighbour building on the plot of land behind ours has been busy re-landscaping our plot and the adjoining one along the boundary to his land. He has reduced the slope of the land along the boundary to his land with a bulldozer, undermining the boundary fence between us and a plot next to us:

You can see the boundary to his land marked by the metal poles in the photos above – all the work has been carried out from our side of the boundary! Actually, apart from the damage to the fence we are not too unhappy, as we had planned to do something similar ourselves. But as we had planned to leave the fence as it was, we are bit unhappy about the damage to it. Our estate agent and lawyer are now trying to contact the neighbour who has made the changes to get him to agree to repair the fence, and to contact us in advance if he has any other plans to implement “good ideas” on our land!