The owners of a rustic plot in Tahíche are accused of recently demolishing the security fences of the construction site with a mechanical shovel for the first phase of about 30 semi-detached houses with swimming pools that the developer Vicente Calderón plans to build next to the land of Avícola Morales.
After having the approval of the Town Council and the building permit in hand, signed last August by the Teguise Town Council itself, the developers of the new homes have filed the corresponding complaints with the courts of Arrecife since they believe that these owners have taken justice into their own hands.
On the one hand, they denounced them before Court Number 6 for boundary marking (the act of marking the boundaries of a property or estate with landmarks, based on articles 484 et seq. of the C.C.), and demarcation (delimitation of the boundaries of a property or estate with determination and marking of the same).
On the other hand, they filed the corresponding complaint for damages before Court Number 5 of the capital of Lanzarote. For the moment, a preliminary hearing will take place on November 2 at 09:30 hours in Court Number 6.
The representatives of the development company say they do not understand the attitude of these neighbors in demolishing the security fences of the construction site, and warn that with this type of action they will only delay the work. The development company has hired a private security service, both the Civil Guard and the Local Police are alerted in case there is a new demolition attempt and even the Teguise Town Council is aware of the matter.
The 4,000 square meters located at the Tahíche intersection that, approximately, separate the farm from the rustic plot, have been the subject of more than one lawsuit and a great controversy in recent years.
The problem that now arises for the developers is the opposition shown not only by the poultry farmers themselves, but also by the neighbors whose plot borders the other side of the land.
The representatives of Vicente Calderón consider that the road that the Town Council plans to build and that will serve to demarcate the future homes and the aforementioned rustic land is the origin of the problem. If so, the interest in having developable land, instead of rustic, would surely be the only reason why these denounced neighbors would be moving and carrying out actions such as the demolition, in their opinion.
According to representatives of the construction company itself this Monday, these residents rely on poor arguments to demonstrate that the land belongs to them. "Three people who came claiming that a part of these lands was theirs because their grandfather had measured it with steps fifty years ago".
For the moment and to continue with the earthworks, the workers re-erected the metal security fence of the construction site, which supposedly these owners illegally demolished with a mechanical shovel.
It is planned that the area will house a total of 30 homes when the works are completed, but for the moment only the first phase of the works has begun, which contemplates 6 homes to be built immediately in the area where there has been no litigation, while the other two units are pending a final in the courts.
More threats
"When they claimed that the land was theirs, they were told to file the corresponding complaint. As until today we have not been notified of the stoppage of the works and we have the building permit from the Town Council, we have continued with the works", argued the representative of the businessman Vicente Calderón at the foot of the construction site.
The developers have denounced the recent demolition and are waiting for a new reaction from these neighbors. In fact, the individuals of the farm adjacent to the 4,000 square meters announced for the afternoon of this Monday a kind of "pitched battle between mechanical shovels", without such an announcement materializing throughout this Monday.
"With the rest of the owners there is no problem. They must be wishing that we finish the works so that their homes are revalued more", explained the sources. "When the fence was demolished, I appeared, I stood in front but they threw me to the ground. We do not want problems but if these gentlemen are going to continue in this plan, we will not let them eat our land", they added.
Background
As will be recalled, LA VOZ offered in its day the version of the owners of the Avícola Morales farm, who denounced before the Civil Guard the demolition of a part of the warehouses where they raise chickens by, in that case, the developers of the homes.
After giving the Morales several years to abandon the chicken breeding warehouses, these had to be demolished a little over a year ago, specifically at the end of the summer of 2004.
Since the 40s the land was owned by the Morales family. Years ago there was a separation and Calderón invested in the purchase of the land, which now has the category of developable land.
