Oooh Chris maybe you can help me out as you work in a local townhall. We've been in Spain for 4 years, husband registered autonomo and pays tax and social security, as well as all the townhall bills for our home. However, our roof fell down in the bad rain (Malaga) of late December and the insurance won't pay and lawyer has advised 5000 euros to take them to court.

Anyway, local townhall say they can't help yet our neighbours opposite recently had their roof collapse a couple of weeks ago and they've told us the townhall are replacing it for them! We've been back to the townhall this morning and they say they're not doing the neighbours roof and won't do ours either. Obviously, we can't prove a thing!

You can imagine how furious we are - our house is unhabitable and we're now paying mortgage and rent which is a real financial burden and isn't helping us to get the money needed to replace our roof.

So my question is, do local townhalls have any obligations to help us? We'll happily agree monthly repayments with them if they help us out. The house is an old terraced Spanish townhouse and we've been told the problem might start affecting the neighbours houses.

Thanks, in advance, for your reply.
Maya