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Last few places!!
north EDITION
07 - 13 oct 2011
(from left) Mark, Clive and Luke at the foot of the wall
Sleepless and scared by Jack Troughton DESPERATE COUPLE Clive and Vanessa Geisler and their adopted five-year-olds children Luke and Mark want to flee their Costa Blanca home and the increasing threat of a major disaster. Worry means the adults can no longer sleep at night and nerves are stretching at every unexplained noise. However, a lack of money means they cannot afford to rent an apartment or even buy a mobile home. An illegally built wall bordering their Denia property has cast a shadow over their lives. It is cracking
and bowing and has been condemned as in imminent danger of collapse by a succession of engineers. The three metre high was built by the Geisler’s neighbour to level his plot and build a landscaped garden, pool and barbeque area. However, it holds back an unstable mix of loose earth, hardcore and polystyrene. Earlier this summer the town hall issued enforcement notices on neighbour Hans Sick to remove the unsafe structure and end years of torment and ongoing court cases. Although he acknowledged the official documents no action was taken. It is alleged Mr Sick – who also owns properties in Germany, Switzerland and the United States – has now lodged an
out of time appeal with the local authority. WARNING Vanessa told RTN the last notice warned the neighbour there he had a month to start the work, estimated to cost over 21,000€. She said if that deadline was missed the council would do the work itself and charge the neighbour. “But the man at the town hall said the council did not have the money to do it and would just keep on sending enforcement notices – it means he is just laughing at us now,” she said. “The architect’s department said we are caught up in the middle of a game of ping pong.” Continued on page 3