The Arrecife City Council approved on September 27 sanctioning the company Hormiconsa Canarias SA for committing an administrative infraction by operating as a waste treatment plant in Maneje without having the pertinent enabling title.
The council, in an ordinary plenary session, described the events as "very serious", imposed a financial penalty of 15,001 euros and the closure of the establishment. However, a citizen of Arrecife then reported to the City Council that a month and a half after that resolution, the crusher continued to operate. Now, almost five months later, it is still open.
The Councilor for Infractions of the Arrecife City Council, Kevin Cortés, stated in November in declarations to La Voz that "there was an error in the plot when a decree was made for the closure and the relevant official has requested the modification." The document had to pass again through the Infractions office to be signed by the councilor and then proceed to close the premises.
According to what this editorial office has learned, the company filed an appeal for reconsideration that is being studied by the Classified Activities Area of the council.
In this case, the Criminal Court number 3 of Arrecife issued a writ to the council in 2015 so that a sentence from that same year would be complied with and issue "as soon as possible" the instructions from the Urban Planning Management to demolish three warehouses with their manufacturing plants of concrete and a crusher, built "illegally" by Hormiconsa in the capital neighborhood. This citizen also informed the council that in November 2024 and, despite the nine-year-old sentence, the warehouses, the crusher and the concrete mixers "are still not demolished" and has indicated that it may be "dereliction of duty" by the local corporation.
A temporary request
On September 19, a week before the Arrecife council approved sanctioning Hormiconsa Canarias SA and decreed the closure of the plant, and nine years after the sentence that urged to demolish what was built, the administrator of the company requested a provisional building permit to, within 18 months, continue using a transformer of aggregates of products, excavations and waste in Maneje.
The company assured that the environmental impact assessment procedure that continues in the Government of the Canary Islands to install a non-hazardous waste plant in Tías should be resolved within that period. Thus, Hormiconsa pledged to "demolish what was built" in the illegal plant in Maneje and "eradicate the provisional use when the term" of the temporary authorization expires.
To carry out this request, the company assured that this provisional license "is not expressly prohibited" in the "environmental or urban planning legislation".
