Juan Carlos Peinado, the judge investigating Begoña Gómez, built a swimming pool without a building permit on a plot on the outskirts of his town, La Adrada (Ávila), next to a spacious villa built a long time ago and without a building permit for first habitation because there is no access to the sanitary network. An extraordinary municipal plenary session, enforced by the PP, classified the site as 'urban' in 2016, when the house had already been under construction for ten years.
The current mayor of La Adrada, the popular Pilar Martínez, has denied elDiario.es access to the urban planning file for the house and the swimming pool. On the grounds of the protection of personal data, it urges you to submit a document that will be analyzed by its legal services so that you can respond within thirty days.
In his office at the City Hall, Martínez Saguar does say that the situation of these works does not worry him in any case, because it is an “old” file. The mayor, who has been part of the municipality's Urban Planning Commission for years, assures that her government has not made any decision on the Peinado farm since she became mayor less than a year ago.
The previous mayor from 2015 to June 2023, Roberto Aparicio, explains that during his mandate “that work was completed.” “I don't remember issuing a first occupancy permit to that house in my time, nor a permit for that swimming pool,” he says. The current councilor was elected mayor by the PSOE. Today he is in an independent formation, Nuestra Tierra, the most voted party in the 2023 elections.
The procedures for the construction of the swimming pool date from May 2022. Now that the work on the country house is almost complete after years of setbacks, the judge is submitting a request for a major works permit for a 'swimming pool project in a single-family home'. with the associated implementation project, health or waste research. But the La Adrada City Council demands that it correct a series of “deficiencies” that still exist today and which, sources with direct knowledge of the matter explain, prevent the issuance of that first occupancy permit: there is no access to the sanitary network.
On May 23, 2022, the municipal architect Peinado warns that “there is no sanitary network on the plot, a network that will also serve the house under construction, so the connection to the municipal sanitary network must be resolved before the permit is issued. “”.
For this reason, “the favorable report on the construction permit for the swimming pool is postponed until the sanitary problem is resolved, as the plot does not currently meet the conditions of a plot,” according to the letter accessed by elDiario.es.
This “problem” will soon be solved with the construction of a collector by the Aqualia company, concessionaire of the service in that city. But despite the “shortcomings” that the city council warned about, the swimming pool, made of firecrete and with an area of 32 square meters, according to the magistrate's project, was built and has been operational since at least 2023. reflects the Geographic information viewer of the Junta de Castilla y León.
Neighbors in the area assure that the judge and his family have been using the house and the swimming pool for some time, despite the fact that the permit for first occupation (which confirms that a work has been carried out in accordance with the conditions under which the permits were granted) has been granted) is a requirement to be able to live in any real estate.
The magistrate did not want to respond to elDiario.es, who asked Peinado in writing, without receiving a response, why he has a chalet in an irregular situation, whether he is in the process of legalizing it, when the swimming pool was built and with what permit, whether he has a sanitary network, or how it is possible that the swimming pool was built without correcting the deficiencies that the city council warned about two years ago.
From the outside, the huge chalet looks like a house with everything you need to move in. This week inside the house, with all the curtains drawn, you saw a very large porch, a brand new stamped concrete sidewalk at the entrance and a covered surface to protect vehicles. At the back of the building, where the swimming pool is located, you could see from afar a large, perfectly maintained garden.
A few days ago, the La Adrada City Council analyzed a report from the municipal architect dated May 27 on “the connection of waste water to the new municipal collector.” Where the judge's chalet is located, “Adrada's municipal planning ordinance has classified plots on either side of the street as consolidated urban land, some of which have already been built up with single-family homes. But until now, these plots had no connection to the municipal sanitary network.”
Since Aqualia executes this municipal collector, “and therefore provides sanitary facilities to all plots on both sides of the street, this must be communicated to the properties that have a home,” as is the case of Judge Peinado, “who have the obligation to to connect waste water from their homes to the new network that is under construction,” the report says. This would remove obstacles to obtaining mandatory municipal permits.
From “urbanizable” to “urban”
The construction of the Peinado House was a long process. The urban development plan in force in La Adrada when the building permit was obtained, on October 28, 2004, was the subsidiary regulations of 1996, which considered this plot as “developable”, but not urban. This means that construction could not be done on that plot at the time: a sub-plan had to be developed that would force the plot to make transfers for communal facilities, such as green areas, streets and other facilities.
Nevertheless, Peinado obtained that building permit and, without any evidence that he had made those transfers, began construction on his house, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. According to the Board of Directors' geographic observer, this happened in 2006, just before the 2008 real estate crash. And ten years later, the site went from “developable” to “urban” during an extraordinary plenary session held in June 2016 at the request of the PP to approve the new urban development regulations of the municipality.
The change was made ahead of the impending entry into force of regional regulations that will see “all developable land become common rural land within weeks,” as residents warned, according to minutes of the meeting. In the vote, the PSOE, which governed the municipality, was in a minority and abstained.
Three years earlier, on July 8, 2013, Peinado asked the city council for an extension of the term “for two more years” to avoid the license expiring and to complete some works that, as he explained, had to be suspended due to legal proceedings initiated by the construction company.
“This stoppage of the works” and “the current economic difficulties that the country is going through, the banking obstacles in obtaining financing, and the fact that we find the right builder to continue the works, are the circumstances that make it advisable to apply for an extension of the deadline for the completion of the construction works,” Peinado argued in a letter accessed by this medium.
Furthermore, “the absence of that collector also has a direct impact on the completion of the signatory's construction work.” Peinado, he explained, “could find himself paying for a completed house, without the ability to connect with the planned collector,” and showed “his full willingness to cooperate appropriately to supply the area of the necessary collector for the houses that have been built.”; thus resolving the insecurity of service that this part of the municipality suffers.” It's finally going live now.
In the property register of Cebreros (Ávila), Judge Peinado's house is a haunted house. The property is a “plot” of 2,866 square meters, valued at only 15,950 euros, which is 100% owned by the judge, who acquired it by donation in a public deed approved by a notary in Madrid in April 2007, when the work on the house took place. They were already on their way. However, recording this information in the register is voluntary.
The information available in the Land Registry says something different: as reported by El Plural, this property is not a chalet with swimming pool, but a “warehouse” built in 2000 with a total area of 955 square meters, which stands on a plot of 2,990 square meters and with a cadastral value of 170,926.45 euros. The owner of a home has the obligation that the cadastral data correspond to reality, in the context of the Real Estate Tax (IBI) levied by the municipalities. If the information is incorrect, you must indicate it in such a way that the value of the home corresponds to reality. But in many cases this information falls under the responsibility of the municipality in question.
In the city, a town of about 2,700 inhabitants in a beautiful enclave west of Madrid, Peinado's close relationship with a former PP heavyweight, originally from La Adrada, is well known: former senator Sebastián González, who worked with Pablo was treasurer of the PP. Casado, president of the council of Ávila and secretary of the Organization when the general secretary of the party was Ángel Acebes, with whom he is related – González is the brother-in-law of his brother Víctor Acebes.
González has been living continuously for a year now in this quiet municipality, surrounded by mountains and pine forests and bordering Sotillo de la Adrada, Isabel Díaz Ayuso's summer resort. After his retirement, he returned to settle in his hometown, confirms the mayor, who claims not to know whether there is a friendship between this former public official and the judge.
Half a dozen neighbors consulted give a different version and assure that Sebastián González and Juan Carlos Peinado have a close relationship: “They are intimate,” says an elderly man on Calle Larga, two steps from the City Hall, who assures that he is the judge held in his arms when I was a baby.
The connection does not end in La Adrada and reaches Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid). In this historic fiefdom of the PP, González's wife, Ana Cardalliaguet, worked as an advisor to the city council until a few months ago. There is Patricia Peinado, daughter of the judge investigating the wife of the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, for alleged corruption, a councilor for this party.