The General Directorate of Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands has sanctioned the Tinajo City Council with 76,500 euros for granting a building permit on a protected house in La Vegueta.
In a sanctioning file, Heritage has indicated that Tinajo granted the building permit on the Rotermund house "contravening the provisions of the architectural catalog, which entail serious damage" and producing "a serious infraction", included in the Canary Islands Cultural Heritage Law.
It qualifies this sanction as serious due to the "irreversibility of the damage", as a oven has been demolished and lime plasters have been removed, that is, the layer of lime that was traditionally used to cover the wall, and highlights the "reiteration and the number of these damages" with "opening of openings", to create doors and windows, and "raising of walls".
Thus, the sanction has highlighted that "the affectation produced on the property significantly alters its representative physiognomy of the traditional rural architecture of Lanzarote".
According to this resolution, the Tinajo council granted this license against the General Planning Plan, which only contemplates that this type of property be intervened to be restored, conserved, as well as consolidated, and that work be done on its conditioning and rehabilitation.
