Maybe the Spanish councils involved in this took a leaf out of RCT's planners' book in the first place: Build anywhere so long as it's only the developers who benefit at the cost of the environment and local communities. It's a familiar story around here, so we're all quite used to it by now.

At least now though Spanish higher authorities, presumably central government in Madrid, seem to have a bit more sense than their counterparts in Britain, because they've suddenly woken up to the fact that developers wreck rather than improve environments. Our lot still seem to be in slumber, so I doubt that there'll be any sudden rush to environmental protection over the developers in the foreseeable future here. In the meantime it'll just be business as usual in RCT.

I do feel sorry for the British residents in Spain for having been duped like this, but then, I wonder whether or not the Spaniards feel a certain resentment about these "foreigners" coming into their country and buying up land and properties like this. There's a lot of resentment in Wales about it as we know, so maybe the Spaniards do feel the same way.