Juan Francisco Rosa, the well-known hotel businessman, has filed a complaint with the Island Council of Lanzarote requesting action against the César Manrique Foundation (FCM). From this complaint, registered with the Cabildo on January 4, it is clear that the administrator of the Hotel Princesa Yaiza understands that the same standards are not being applied in the case of the Foundation as in the case of the hotels.
The text of the lawsuit, which lavozdelanzarote.com has had access to, emphasizes the "prolonged silence" of the Cabildo in relation to the [ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=3297&var_recherche=c%FApulas%2C+FCM] (TSJC), which is contrary to the César Manrique Foundation and which describes the works carried out next to the House of the Domes in the Taro de Tahíche, in Teguise, as "illegal".
"Unacceptable and scandalous"
Juan Francisco Rosa denounces that while the Cabildo zealously demands that the Island Plan of Lanzarote (PIOL) be complied with in some cases, its attitude is different with respect to the works annexed to the FCM headquarters.
Rosa considers the attitude of the Cabildo with respect to the institution presided over by José Juan Ramírez to be "unacceptable and even scandalous".
For the businessman, the Cabildo has shown for years, "as if the César Manrique Foundation enjoyed a patent of marque, a more than surprising passivity".
In other words, Juan Francisco Rosa points out to the Department of Territorial Policy and Environment of the Cabildo that if it is accepted and applauded that building permits for hotels in Playa Blanca or Costa Teguise are annulled, the one affecting the Foundation must also be admitted.
For all these reasons, the hotel businessman asks the Cabildo to do everything in its power to ensure that the PIOL is taken to its ultimate consequences, now in relation to the workshops built by the César Foundation on protected rural land, just as it has been doing with the hotels.
This is not the first frontal attack suffered by the institution of which [Director of Foundational Activities Fernando Gómez Aguilera->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=1839&var_recherche=c%FApulas%2C+FCM] is the director.
The government team of the Cabildo presided over by the pilista María José Docal, criticized this same legislature the combative attitude of the Foundation with respect to the road of La Geria, through a promotional video diffused in the local televisions of the Island.
The "no" to the Son Bou license
This lawsuit by Juan Francisco Rosa coincides with the recent judicial resolution against a hotel in Playa Blanca owned by the aforementioned businessman. Specifically, on January 12, the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands issued a ruling in which it sided with the Cabildo in its defense of the PIOL and its revision, known as the Moratorium, decreeing the nullity of the license granted by the Yaiza City Council to the Hotel Son Bou, now annexed to the Hotel Princesa Yaiza, for failing to comply with the island plan and the tourist moratorium. It is a three-star hotel located in plot E of the Costa Papagayo partial plan, with a total of 167 tourist places.
The "no" to the FCM workshops
Juan Francisco Rosa's request to the Cabildo is preceded by a lawsuit filed by PIL militant Manuel González against the workshops annexed to the Foundation in del Taro de Tahíche. As a result, in May 2004 the courts declared null and void the license granted by the Teguise City Council to the FCM to build these workshops.
Against that ruling, the Foundation filed an appeal, but the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands dismissed it in October. For its part, the Foundation issued a statement in which it evaded any responsibility, arguing that its conduct had always been correct.
Workshops for reflection
The famous workshops of the César Manrique Foundation were built next to the House of the Domes, in the Volcán de Tahíche. They have served as a residence and workshop for artists of the stature of Miró. The Foundation did not build a complex of apartments to sell or rent, but a workshop that has been used by artists, urban planners, architects and engineers who, invited by the FCM, have carried out projects for the different municipalities of Lanzarote. In addition, this space has been used to carry out educational workshops with schoolchildren on the Island.