A new ruling by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has annulled the permits that the mayor of Yaiza, José Francisco Reyes, granted in 1999 and 2003 to the company "Urena Mountain S.A" for the construction of a 443-bed hotel on plot 139 of the Montaña Roja Partial Plan, near the Pechiguera lighthouse.
The High Court once again upholds the appeals filed by the Cabildo of Lanzarote and declares the appealed licenses null and void because they were granted in violation of the Law on Territorial Planning of the Canary Islands (Law 9/1999, of May 13), the Law on Urgent Measures in tourism matters (Law 6/2001, of July 23) and the Island Planning Plan, by having omitted the prior, mandatory and binding report that the Cabildo of Lanzarote must issue in a favorable manner for new works to be authorized on land whose partial plans are not adapted to the PIOT.
The appeal filed in 2003 by the Cabildo against the permits granted by the mayor of Yaiza for the construction of this hotel (whose works were to begin in that year) managed to prevent this tourist complex from being executed, thus preventing the construction of a large building near the Pechiguera area.
With this, there are now 20 tourist complexes whose licenses have been annulled by the Courts in the Judgments issued in the appeals filed by the Cabildo of Lanzarote.