The General Directorate of Culture and Cultural Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands is considering initiating a sanctioning procedure against an architect and a developer who are building eight homes in Teguise allegedly "without having heeded the urban planning license" and destroying an archaeological site.
According to information published by La Provincia, those responsible for the work made the archaeosedimentary deposits, accumulated sediments that have information about the customs and life of our ancestors, disappear "in their entirety" to build these eight homes.
According to this same information, the conditions of the urban planning license showed the need to "carry out a prior archaeological activity" which they would have "ignored" and destroyed "one of the longest historical assets, in extension, that the island had".
This file has not yet been initiated, but could mean a sanction of up to 10,000 euros for the developer.
Sanction of 76,500 euros to Tinajo
The General Directorate of Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands sanctioned the Tinajo City Council with 76,500 euros for granting a building permit to a protected house in La Vegueta.
Specifically, the Tinajo consistory granted a building license on the Rotermund house "contravening the provisions of the architectural catalog, which entail serious damage" and producing "a serious infraction", included in the Cultural Heritage Law of the Canary Islands, as already reported by La Voz.
