Hi,

Yes you can do it at the Consulates in either London or Manchester. If I remember correctly, you have to go personally with the application form which you can down load from the Consulate web site, and hand it in with £25.00, they then send it off to Madrid to be processed and then they will only send it to a Spanish address, so you could use your Solicitors address in Spain.

From my discussions, it takes a minimum of 3 weeks to process, then it goes into the black hole of the Spanish postal service. So how long it takes is unknown and in the lap of the gods.

To do in Spain, it can be done in within 2 days.